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York Times as the “Dean of Cold War Historians”. Penguin Group published this book on November 20, 2011. This book is the official biography of George F. Kennan, winning a Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2012. The purpose of this secondary source is to give a detailed account of the life of George Kennan. The book is valuable to historians as a comprehensive source of information on the life of George Kennan. Also, this source is extremely valuable to historians specifically researching the…

Nonetheless, Plutarch, ancient Greek historian, frequently wrote about the helots of Sparta. Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus – centered upon legendary lawgiver of Sparta, Lycurgus – focused significantly on the helots, specifically on the nature of the Crypteia and the effect it had on the slave…

Topic Introduction: Stemming from the Enlightenment are fundamental concepts that sparked the American and French Revolutions. Of these enlightenment ideals, reason is by far the most important. Reason – the freedom to think and act for oneself – is a core value that stems from this era. Kant argued that be human is to abandon a life of unreason or a reliance on faith and superstition. Reason, Kant claims, is the true meaning of humanity. Reason is the sign of maturity. As such, as we grow and…

this ancient practice was codified and standardized in the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali. It is unknown when Sri Patanjali lived, and some historians are uncertain if a single person actually wrote the Yoga Sutras. Currently, historians believe that the sutras were written between 5,000 B.C. and 300 A.D. Whether Patanjali actually wrote the sutras or not, historians know that he did not invent yoga. His main contribution was to write down and systematize the practices that already existed. Over the…

Storm breathes over the spectrum of African American culture presenting a new look at the history of African American in the form of art. Hence the title, it expounds upon the oppression and the journey of resilience of Blacks in America. As a historian, Stuckey's collection of fourteen essay, which covers prominent movements in the African-American experience through the collection of primary and secondary sources of literary journals and books to breathe over a range of poetry, music, and…

Studying the Cold War is a monumental and often confusing task due to the various countries, politicians, wars, and foreign policies involved. Furthermore, Historians will find little assistance from dense textbooks or find it nearly impossible to track and incorporate the mandatory primary sources to develop his own sense of the Cold War. Luckily, David S. Painter’s text The Cold War: An International History provides an accurate and compact overview of the Cold War through a holistic…

presenter: As many of you may be aware, today marks the anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis. To celebrate this we have brought a well renowned historian to conduct a t.v news special for tonight. Would you please join me in welcoming Kyle Smyth, who will speak at length today with us about the long term significance of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Expert historian: The conflict began in October 1962 and lasted for 13 days between the two superpowers of the era; The Soviet Union and the United…

She focuses on the nineteenth century when the government decided to take the steps to collect and preserve resources and history. Meringolo reminds the reader that before 1930, not a single historian had worked for the National Park Service. Shortly after, a small but a growing number of historians were employed in the bureau’s Washington, D.C.,…

variety from both Mexican and the Anglo-American historiography. One of these sources includes a general overview of the Spanish and Mexican periods by Mexican historian Agustín Cué Cánovas’, Historia social y económica de Mexico, 1521-1854 (1967). Weber also widely uses The Far Western Frontier, 1830-1860 (1956), by American Historian Ray Allen Billington, which he attributes as being one of the most balanced accounts of westward expansion. Weber chose both of these sources because they…

The Celts were a complex group comprised of a widely diverse range of ethnic groups that were lumped as one by the Greeks to Otherize them. Famous philosophers and early historians of the time, such as Hecataeus and Herodotus, traveled extensively, for the time, and made maps and notes of different lands and different peoples that detailed their mores and culture. However most of their findings simply detailed differences…