Contemporary history

Maxwell is a 7-year-old white male. He is in the 2nd grade for the 17/18 school year. Maxwell loves everything about school including reading, math, recess, and lunch. He stated that he likes school because “you get to read and learn”. When asked about what his friends like about him he added that his friends do not like anything about him. He also stated that he has been bullied in the school hallway by older kids. Maxwell stated that the three things that he does well is keeping his hands to…

While Foucault identifies history with the past and the documents containing such information, Taylor (n.d) identifies history as a field correlated to the trauma that forms part of human existence. According to Taylor (n.d) history is part of human existence and it should be referenced according to the events that took part in the past years. This means that it should never be separated in terms of durations of discontinuities, but it should rather form part of the existence. Unlike Foucault…

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…

compare and contrast the gathered primary sources focusing on their individual telling of the Battle of Verneuil in 1424. What each author or artist chose to emphasize and deemphasize respectively will be examined in light of their works’ use as contemporary propaganda. The product of this research will be a highly dramatized, yet fully faithful set of reenactments covering each version of the battle to be used as a teaching tool in a classroom setting. With Henry V’s death near the end of the…

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 conservation, and the prevalence of conservation in the contemporary world, it is evident that something is missing. Previous scholars approached these two dominant subjects from multiple standpoints in order to create a narrative that comprehensively…

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…

While hymns originate before the legalization of Christianity by the Holy Roman Empire, contemporary Christian music is part of a movement created around the peak of Beatlemania. Originally referred to at “Jesus Music”, Christian Rock, Pop, and R&B had expanded into a multimillion-dollar business by the 1980s. This takeover of the music business was not without controversy, with contemporary Christian music being criticized for simple lyrics, repetitious chords, and having disingenuous motives…

The Histories Study Guide: Day 2 Motivations Behind The Histories Herodotus was primarily interested in describing the “known world”. For example, book 2 was originally a separate book about Egyptian customs, which he later inserted. His motive was to show how history is one continuous story, and how many different events are actually interwoven. One can read The Histories as an illustration of the different societies and cultures in the area with the Persian War…

upper-class individuals dominate the canon of Western History. While such a dominance does not negate their scholarship, the voices of the marginalized—women, the poor and ethnic minorities—are not represented in this limited historical viewpoint. Many mid-20th century historians felt that there was a need to counter this inequality of representation. For example, E.P. Thompson, Clifford Geertz and Natalie Zemon Davis each generated works that revealed the history of a previously marginalized…

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…