Historian

Fog to depict the landscape and starts to describe it’s perspective history. His narrations are precise because he ties in aspects of art history to expand on the knowledge of why history came to be. Gaddis’s states; “This gets us close to what historians do-or at least, to echo Machiavelli, should have the odor of doing: it is to interpret the past for the purposes with a view…

There are many types of methods for historians to obtain more information about past. Three of them are: social history, oral history and visual history. Social history for many many years was a recollection of written documents to acknowledge only the important people such as country leaders or soldiers. Now social history is being studied more deeply. Historians are now studying men and women along with all the parts of their lives like work,culture and marriage and other important topics.…

could walk down the street unmolested one day and be taken to jail the next. Historians have approached the topic of prostitution differently as time has gone on and as new evidence has been undercovered. Historians of prostitution have utilized tools such as feminist lens, quantitative study, social theory and case studies in order to chip away at larger topics. They have also been critical of the views of other historians. Historical literature on prostitution has been around almost as long as…

reflective 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…

even known. Since the end of World War II, a countless number of historians have studied and written chronicles on the Japanese’s decision to surrender and what motivated them to do so. This argument derives from the factors of whether the atomic bombings, the Soviet Union’s entrance into the war in the Pacific and the influence of how Japan’s government helped motivate the country’s decision to surrender. Post-World War II historian Robert J. C. Butow’s 1954 book Japan’s Decision to Surrender…

period in history in the United States that was dominated by ideas of change from 1890’s to 1920’s. The historians of this time had many differentiating opinions of how progressivism impacted America. This paper will be covering various viewpoints from historians such as Mowry, Kolko and Connolly. Who were the progressives? This answer to this questions is based on the perspectives on the historians. According to Mowry, in his writes of Progressivism: Middle Class Disillusionment, he…

Age of Philip II , which Fernand Braudel published in 1949, has profound consequences for many historical fields, and this work has prompted historians to engage in the studies centring on the sea and coastal areas, such as, the Atlantic, the Baltic Sea, and the Pacific. The development of imperial history and Atlantic history has encouraged many historians to pay attention to the British Atlantic World in the eighteenth century, and they attempt to reconstruct the history of the British…

not to be recognized enough for the achievement. Historians explain how ‘it was Haig’s army which bore the brunt of the fighting,’ and that how that it was Haig’s military plan and leadership which caused this. Some sources believe that most historians ignore this event and ‘concentrate on 1916 and 1917.’ Secondly, there is evidence to say that Haig failed as a leader and military adviser, and does not deserve a statue in his honour. Many Historians believe that Haig was a ‘butcher’ who led…

much more. These were factors expressed in the documents from men. The documents were passed down from generation to generation, as well as some held in historical museums. When a historian got a hold of a piece of work they were able to break it apart and reach a conclusion on what the document was trying to say. Historians uncover the hidden stories to express what happened in…

Over time, historians have challenged this view by examining how cruel the Europeans were to the Indians. They rejected the idea of white superiority and instead, viewed the Europeans as brutal over the Indians. One historian Gary Nash, presented this idea in his book, Red, White, and Black. In this book, the Indians were perceived as victims to the Europeans brutality. Another misconception about Native Americans in the European colonization of North America, is that some historians viewed them…