Ancient history

One of the hardest things to do as a history teacher, especially at the high school level, is to get students to understand what it means to be “doing history.” It isn’t just to have facts and dates thrown at you to parrot back, but to come up with an understanding of what the people of that time were thinking and doing and why the document that is being analyzed even exists and what it did for this country, if not the world. In the books Historical Thinking and other Unnatural Acts: Charting…

Monument is a kind of the architecture for people to memorize the history and understanding the relationship between the past and the present. It records the history from the past, and present it to the future. The purpose of building the monument in the city is for reminding us what we have right now is depends on how many effort they (historical personage) did in the past. Monument is not only for people to memorize something, it also could be educational and motivational to the audience.…

There are many different accounts on the fall of the Qin dynasty. The different accounts are either secondary or primary sources. Some are reliable and others not so trustworthy. There are many aspects that make it easier to decipher which sources are not realistic and which really tell the story of the Qin dynasty. Three documents were given to piece together the fall of the Qin dynasty. However, it’s unknown if they are reliable or unreliable. The three sources are document A,“World…

of Structuralist ideals? As stated in Houses of History: A critical reader in twentieth-century history and theory, “An analyst of society will seek to elucidate these structures.” How can historians examine evidence in a way that will break down barriers and make ideas clearer? Should historians consider Blaudel’s model successful, since much historical writing deals with “change over time.” 2. Leopold von Ranke once avowed, “The facts of history never come to us ‘pure’ since they do not and…

narratives of the Holocaust have been formed, as well as tracing the development of literature from publications from just after the war that became the common histories of the Holocaust up to more recent publications; the second examines narrative theory via philosophy and theology, as well as debating the “uniqueness” of the Holocaust in history. The central argument Stone constructs is that the Holocaust “provides both the occasion for, and the ultimate test of, new ways of giving meaning to…

The Appalachian Trail has been a major source of curiosity for many scholars in the past, and it will continue this trajectory for years to come. Even more individuals have embraced the theme of conservation within historical writing. Each segment of scholarship that focuses on these topics does so through varying lenses, though typically social, utilizing numerous methodologies, and originates from varying backgrounds. Despite these numerous approaches to the topics of the Appalachian Trail and…

Michel-Rolph Troillot’s Silencing the Past examines the various perspectives that existed contemporaneously during the Haitian revolution in order to bring the past into the view, and convince us that the history that is presented to us in textbooks by historians and politicians as absolute, is actually a collection of particular narratives that present themselves as objective and linear while silencing other competing narratives. Troiullot brings the Haitian revolution into focus and uncovers…

Renfrew and bahn chapter one: The main focus and summary of this chapter is about the history of archaeology, as well as its present form. Archaeology has gone from discovering and finding archaeological material, to developing/applying methods to answer questions about our human past. Thomas Jefferson was the first to have a recorded excavation in 1784. By using methods such as stratigraphy and deductive reasoning, archaeologists of this time were able to touch on the deeper questions of our…

e. Macrosystem Another layer within the ecological system which includes cultural values, laws, cultural customs and resources that affect experiences and interaction of inner level of the environment is macrosystem. There are different subcultures in the United States. Urban low-income communities, rural farming communities, and suburban middle-class communities describe three different macrosystems that may differ in their subcultural beliefs about, for example, child abuse. To put it another…

represents history and culture in its films, most will agree that Disney’s portrayals are highly inaccurate. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is that Disney is working to better portray non-American cultures and history in their films. Whereas some are convinced that Disney has and still is inaccurately representing the history and culture of many other people such as the Chinese and Native Americans, others believe that Disney is now beginning to accurately portray Polynesian history…