Historiography

It is very important for historians to be cautious when they analyze primary sources. It is crucial to review the context carefully in order to try to discover the original meaning and theme of the source. I reviewed three images that were prominent to me and did my best to incorporate the context while analyzing the images. The first image is titled, “A cheife Herowans wife of Pomeoc, and her daughter of the age of 8 or 10 years." (Theodore de Bry's Engravings). This piece shows a glimpse into…

Primary sources add a different point of view for historical events. With a first-hand account it is easier for a reader to understand more clearly from someone who was present. A secondary source states the event in a more informational way that does not depict as much of a personal emotion. Both documents are valuable and it is important to acknowledge the importance of seeing both primary and secondary documents on a subject. Without primary documents we may end up with a lack of detail and…

A primary source provides direct or first-hand evidence about a certain event; this is apparent in the use of this source . The perspective, in which the is poster is shown, is the British Governement during World War One. The key caption of Propaganda “The Kitchen is the key to victory, eat less bread”. It was aimed at the women on the home front, urging them to save resources so it can be used for men at war. When assessing the reliability, it can be used to study the British home front but…

The Secondary Source Philip C. Kolin is a professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. Kolin has wrote other articles that the source does not list. “Green’s The Destructors” is one of Kolins’ work. This article was found in the Explicator Journal volume 58 issue 3 that was published in the year 2000. Within this source Kolin covers the history throughout the short story “The Destructors” by G. Greene. Kolin explains the time frame that the story was written, the connections between the…

Microhistory as a Point of Convergence The issue most often taken with microhistory is that it does not represent the majority, and it is often compared to a biography. Biographies and microhistories have more similarities than differences, but those differences transform them completely. Jill Lepore conveys this succinctly, writing, If biography is largely founded on a belief in the singularity and significance of an individual's life and his contribution to history, microhistory is founded…

Discuss your views and commentary on the issues surrounding the historiography of psychology. What is psychology? To begin, psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and its processes, including behavior. To be more explicit psychology is a complex, diverse, and in-depth disciplinary that has grown dramatically in its area of interests since its founding. What I particularly appreciate most about this discipline is the comprehensive list of subfields within its branch of division.…

incorporate and entwine several themes. These themes include the history of federal immigration policies from 1980’s onward, Charlotte's immigration and New South history, non-profit history, and the history of immigrant integration. The central historiography I will address, focuses on the history of various nonprofits' ability to achieve their political, social, and ideological goals (such as immigrant integration). I plan to engage with the methodologies and approaches of this field directly.…

hero – as it was common practice to idolize a military/political figure. Following his brief accounts of the War itself, Washauer addresses the rising question; who should be allowed to undermine the Constitution? Washauer’s question adds to the historiography of Jackson by examining his political prowess and rise of Jacksonian Democracy stemming from his subvert of the Constitution in New Orleans. By books end, Washauer writes a monograph that addresses Jacksonian America through both…

The Slave Experience Historiography can be analyzed by comparing and contrasting historians and the historical subject that they focus on. Each historian is different and can hold different bias and opinions on a specific topic. The thoughts and opinions of slave labor expressed in A Troublesome Property, The Quality of Slave Labor and Racism, and The Black Work Ethic vary between each author. The first article to assess is A Troublesome Property, from Kenneth M. Stampp’s book, The Peculiar…

Recollection and historiography are key themes within Joy Kogawa’s novel Obasan, which not only discusses but also engages in historiography through the use of government documents and other primary sources relevant to the internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II. It follows that most literary criticism and scholarship of Obasan has at least secondarily discussed historiography. However, the literature that is primarily concerned with historiography has tended to focus more…