Historian

include the artifacts’ use as propaganda and their unreliability, incompletion, or absence. Clark stresses that policymaking was opaque and intricate because many influenced it, and therefore it is prone to several interpretations. Consequently, the historian chose to study the First…

because it presents history from Marxist ankle and used vocabulary, which is associated with that approach. Due to influence of social class, modern historians rediscover history. They starts to look into non-written oral stories and consider them as evidences. The series of book ‘A history of everyday life in Scotland’ is an example of historian work on people everyday life. The books presents Scotland from prospective of live led by ordinary people. It is an example of micro-history of…

husband sign a divorce letter. “The Maeno built a cage in the garden and locked the husband in there for two mid-winter months, until he finally wrote the divorce letter.” A male member of the Maeno clan documented this, but left Nao’s name out of it. Historians found this only because the Mori clan recorded it with Nao’s…

territories, who made the decision to start mass executions of the Jewish People in their areas, a decision that was later retroactively given approval by the higher-ups of the Nazi Regime such as Hitler . Hans Mommsen is another functionalist historian that enterered the debate in the late 1960’s. Mommsen is best known for originating the concept of Hitler as a “weak dictator”. Mommsen believed that Hitler was not a rule that reacted decisively to important matters, and instead reacted to…

hold up. Furthermore, while showing the inconsistency in time of the theory/narrative distinction, Levy showed how theory itself was not distinct to only political science; “Some historians are quite explicit about the analytical assumptions and…

In this timeless piece on Colonial Pirates, Hughson takes an approach that can be likened to a social history common throughout historians of the late 19th century and early 20th century. The author seeks to explain to the reader just exactly how pirates of Carolina, both North and South in the 18th and 17th centuries came about. More specifically Hughson looks to not only highlight just how they arose but how they were regarded by both Colonists and British authorities, how they affected the…

Myth and Countermyth In Mark Chohen’s chapter “Myth and Countermyth”, his argument consists of two contrasting ideas. The first idea is the myth of the interfaith utopia. People called that time a literary golden age during which Jews and Arab people lived peaceful under Islamic rules. Islam people at that time did not discriminate against the Jews and they tolerated the Jews. Jews received both political and cultural toleration. As a result, the Jewish culture started to integrate into the…

people boarding on the ship but only 706 people survived, that is only 706 people who actually came back to their beloved home. Who is actually responsible for her first and last voyage? Without a doubt Historians believe that one reason that the Titanic sank was because of human error. Historians on www.historians.net blame Captain Edward J. Smith, the radio operators, and the crew on the Californian for the R.M.S. Titanic’s sinking. “I could not conceive of any vital disaster happening to…

The bombing of civilians during World War II had profound moral effects and long-lasting impacts. As historian Richard Overy stated, “the deliberate targeting of civilian populations in World War II represented a grave departure from traditional norms of warfare.” The indiscriminate bombings caused immense suffering and the loss of innocent lives. According to the research conducted by historian A.C. Grayling, “The psychological trauma inflicted on survivors and the destruction of the cities had…

Instead of having linear concepts or cyclical views of history, what if there was another way to look at our past? Barbara Tuchman was an American historian and best-selling writer whose theory of history is atypical compared to most historians. Barbara emphasized that history was like painting a portrait with every factual detail at hand essential to finishing the piece. Throughout her time as a successful writer she coined the term not “to instruct but to tell a story.” This quote goes hand in…