Family History Essay

film “The Return of Martin Guerre.” This film has received attention from historical scholars mainly because a well-established historian, Natalie Zamon Davis, was a consultant in the development of this film. Davis also generated her own academic history of the same story after her experience as a consultant. She claimed that after the film gave little consideration to historical facts that she supplied, she felt obligated to examine the case in detail and generate an academically acceptable…

Famous pop artist Andy Warhol once said, “I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all its meaning.” On the contrary, art still can convey a clear meaning no matter how many times it is experienced. The time period from the mid-20th century to now especially has spawned a plethora of meaningful visual art. Concepts like consumerism in the 50s to 60s, the Vietnam War in the 70s, and graffiti from the 80s to now all contain art that connects to the past through presenting the…

Historicism. As formerly stated, the eminent New Historicist Cathrine Gallagher is of the view that a critic should focus his attention on both the text and its historical context. As a matter of fact, The Yacoubian Building is a reflection of its historical context. In this literary text, Alaswany thoroughly probes the evils of the corrupt regime under Mubarak; he boldly discloses election forgery as well as the extortion and blackmail experienced by authorized people in order to…

the entire of Beowulf, regardless of its Christian elements, is emphatically and most un-Christianly skeptical in its perspective of life and history. The narrative structure of the poem shows that albeit even the most heroic of men may for a period conquer the forces of obscurity, he in time will be vanquished by them. The foundation of Scandinavian history before which the move of Beowulf makes put and to which the poet always suggests makes unequivocally a similar purpose of the fates of…

For my essay I met with Peter Alter, a historian and the archivist at the Chicago History Museum (CHM) since 2010. Peter was exceptionally helpful and patient in answering all of my questions. The archives at the CHM house many important collections relating to life in the Chicago region that go back as far as 1683. Having used their research center, I have always been impressed at how user-friendly their searchable database is, and how quickly they are able to locate the folders requested…

I took over three college-prep U.S. History classes, one English as a Second Language (ESL) U.S. History class, and team-taught an Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. History class. When I joined the AP U.S. History class, the course was essentially finished because the AP test had been taken, and students were working on final projects. The college-prep and ESL classes , on the…

Canadian historian Donald Creighton. Hufton later published these lectures as Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution. Prior to her shift towards women’s history in the 1980s, Hufton was primarily interested in poverty and social relations; her previous books focused on social history and political history, one of which attempted to place the French Revolution in a broader historical context. Partially in response to the plethora of publications that emphasize specific…

In the distant of times from the time we are in the days of old. We often reminded ourselves mentally and physically through a process called memories. In the article “Trying Not to Forget Forgetting” the author M. Zeki Duman mentions the importance of memories. In a period of time through a series of event in the days of our forefather to currently now present days. Over times legitimate record written forgotten and replace by false memory through idealism causes doubt in the mind of many…

History is a composition of past events. It is real and honest. However, the materials used by historians (which are called sources) to study history are only records of history, so they need not to be absolutely true and unbiased. If a group of scholars were to evaluate a set of clues surrounding a play, they would mainly use texts and written records of the play and all these evidences are considered sources which therefore need to be carefully examined before put into use. To these scholars,…

story from 17 century “China as an abyss of semi-imperial and semi-feudal society” to the “Road of socialism with Chinese characteristic” in the People's Republic of China. First few sessions of the exhibition meant to emphasis particularly on the history of the Communist Party of China’s fight for the people’s liberation and independence of every…