Contemporary history

piece of literature than a work of history? Livy wrote history. But, it differed from what is now typically described as a “good” history. He was more concerned with creating an accurate and useful account of moral history and of the history of characters than a purely factual recollection of events. His overall aim was to show how Rome became great, and to use that as a guide for securing future prosperity. Despite what many critics have said, this approach to history is still valuable and…

an urban context, what makes artifacts’ character “distinctive” and “definitive” is not only their physicality but also their memory. To this end, Also Rossi’s argues for “the soul of the city” as the city’s history, its memory. Although we all travel backward in time through memory, history and memory should be distinguished totally from each other, the former belongs to a specific point which got already expired in the time-line of universe- only if such time line could be imaginable, but the…

Visiting a museum has always been a top priority, since it not only house the ancient cultural history but also communicates in a symbolic manner to all age groups. Today the very concept of the museum has undergone a drastic transformation. Museums in contemporary times are not restricted to ancient people and history, but museum today comprise histories and impart stories of human beings. As a result there are different types of museums focusing on diverse issues such as eco-museums focus on…

History Adrift History, according to Edward Said, is an being that “leaves its traces on all of us whether or not we recognize them”. Said’s suggestion within this statement is that we all, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, become historical subjects and are intertwined through the relationship of past and present moments. Examples of the unknown traces of existence that history can leave be behind are found in modern academia, art, and many other areas of life. However, due to various…

what society now refers to as ‘history’; an essential tool critical for humanity’s self-knowledge. The traces of Herodotus that he has left behind retain a meaningful place in both the context of Classical Greece as well as the context of the modern world. Through the use of primary and secondary sources in this essay,…

individual is what allows the message to have an influence on history. Two examples of this personal connection between people and the messages they are given are the dream that Clytemnestra has in The Oresteia, and the oracle recounted by Herodotus in The Histories. The dream Clytemnestra has is very personal, yet to the audience it reveals attitudes and values present in Athenian culture that might not have been obvious otherwise. In The Histories, the oracle's message relates the larger…

American history class was reduced to a long list of facts because of the emphasizes placed on the standardized testing here in Texas. We were no longer destined to learn the story of American History the people, and events that have defined America as we know it. This paper will provide my personal philosophy of education, methods that can be used to impact a new age American history class as well as provide evidence to support the uses of my philosophy teaching methods in my American History…

Richard Muller in the “Reflection on Persistent Whiggism and Its Antidotes in the Study of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Intellectual History”. The purpose of the article is to examined how the contemporary scholars are relating to the historical context of the sixteenth and the seventeenth century. The article also identified the thinkers and how they changed the ideologies of the church during the reformation era. Richard Muller argued that one must understand theological and…

He was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifthcentury BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the deities, as outlined in his introduction to his work. He also has been called the father of the…

fate, shape history—the study of past events— and many groups of diverse individuals from all around the world. While others argue against the importance of history, and the necessity to study it, others boldly defend the significance of analyzing the past. Countless historians, such as the five authors of the following sources, endlessly enforce their own diverse range of opinions, while including other aspects that contribute to their arguments. However, there is no doubt that history serves…