Ancient history

StoneHenge- History Mystery Task Key questions Description Location - Where is the site? The StoneHenge is located in Amesbury, Salisbury in the UK. Time period - When was it built? The construction was believed to have started in 3100 BC. Purpose - Do historians know exactly what the site was used for? If yes, how do they know? If not, why don’t they know? The historians don’t know what the site was used for and how it was built. Some theories about that giants made the Stonehenge…

Like any other source of information oral history is a valuable source for historian. Therefore historian should take oral history as a legitimate source of information because it has the potential of providing rich primary sources. While oral history has the potential of highlighting individual experiences of past events and reassert ordinary individual inherent agency as people, it is not without its pitfalls; any historian approaching oral history must approach it with a critical lens and…

The way nations remember their past is extremely important for their future. Certainly there are a lot of different ways a society can remember crucial moments of its history. One of the most efficient and realistic is photography and film. With its emergence in the 19th century photography played a significant role during national conflicts in different countries and World War II. The way a picture can capture a moment cannot be underestimated, as it is one of the most realistic and reliable…

When I was growing up, I was taught and motivated to understand the concepts of education and explore the endless possibilities that are offered through it. In the same way, I have been motivated to learn about the history of the world as it provides me a better image and understanding of a culture, a town, and in some cases, an individual. Also, I always wanted – in fact very badly wished – to travel the world, do something for the greater good, be someone more than a girl who comes from a…

time. There are also some points wherein they have the same idea, but they are opposite for the most part. This paper is going to discuss those differences, and point out the exactitude of why there is that difference. Let us start with a brief history. Hegel was born in 1831. A time wherein…

significant value in the study of design history. Unfortunately, at a time when incredible value is placed on novelty and individual creativity, the narratives of the past often fall on deaf ears, written off as mere nostalgia (Hunt 2014, 1). Focusing on landscape architecture, this essay will defend the presence of history in contemporary thought and promote an active and critical engagement with the antecedents of design. It will be argued that the study of design history provides valuable…

The human figure in their works strives to capture raw, unpleasant features of the body. Wagschal puts a strong emphasizes on depicting the wrinkles, aged, and tired characteristics of her models as seen in one of her most notable works “Portariat of Judy Garfin” (1982). In this piece, she emphasizes the not so flattering features of her elderly model, a very different approach from idealized depictions found in traditional portraits. The Greek or Renaissance ideas of beauty and perfection are…

critique and rethink approaches to history, which I will discuss later in this paper. Elton, on the other hand, emphasizes the universal “truth” within historical studies. He insists that there is no such thing as “subjectivity”, and all facts within historical sources are indeed just that – facts. History is composed of an objective reality that can neither be interpreted in different ways nor can…

Now that we are at the end of the Spring 2016 semester, it is time to reflect on the History Department’s exciting year. I don’t normally like to turn my back on people, but I wanted to model the History Student Association’s new t-shirt. Not only do I like the shirt, I believe that our students came up with a wonderful way of describing what it is that we as historians do and are. We are scholars who are “in-betweeners.” “Our minds are in the past, our bodies in the present, and our…

without the film feeling like a documentary or over explaining the events of the film. Blue Kite’s ability to show another’s history as sympathetic and understandable is also seen in To Live and Farewell My Concubine. However, the use of the events is different throughout the films. These three films are leading examples of how Fifth Generation’s films humanizes the history of another country so all can…