Historian

In his introductory essay, “Framing Disease: Illness, Society, and History,” historian Charles E. Rosenberg explores the complex nature of disease and its role as a social actor, asserting, “’in some ways disease does not exist until we have agreed that it does, by perceiving, naming, and responding to it.” Rosenberg’s statement finds its basis in his multi-layered approach to the study of disease, which he refers to as “framing.” Rather than focusing on a purely social or biological…

crafted by Renaissance artists. All of the pieces listed previously share some commonalities, the most important one being that they all were created during or after the production of The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione. Countless historians have made the connections between artwork from the High Renaissance to The Book…

Grossmann, a German born historian, expanded on the functionalist belief in his article, “The Final Solution”. He described the Final Solution as a step-by-step process that escalated as the war progressed. The first major preparatory step began once the war started, and Germany had…

lighten about him. Many years later, historians started to question the traditional interpretation. They had looked into it and found many sources that state that he wasn't as bad as people thought he was. They started to explain the reason it why people may think he was and found out some remarkable information. Over the years this has kept happening and historians all over the globe have kept looking for what King John was actually like, but as of now, historians…

way the Athenian policy was constituted, i.e., what the structure of the political system was.’ Yet despite this, The Athenian constitution has been noted down partly by Aristotle during the classical period 500- 323 BC as well as other Ancient Historians such as Pericles or Thucydides. The Constitution of Athenians is known mainly due to Aristotle giving evidence at the end of his Nicomachean Ethics, stating that his Politics would be based in part on the “collected…

However, Thucydides is also where most historians have gathered information about this mysterious plague. Thucydides contracted the plague, however he did not succumb to the illness, instead he offered historians an inside view of the symptoms and how it felt. This information was particularly helpful because at the time medical journals, guides, or similar teaching tools were…

Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian Renaissance historian, in the novel “The Prince and Other Writings” states that a prince Must have a balance of how he acts towards his people in order to be a successful leader. First, Machiavelli establishes, that a prince can be generous but must be careful, for too much generosity may lead to disorder. Then the author elucidates that a prince must be feared and loved, but to be feared has a greater benefit because humans will break the bond of love when…

Wilson’s blunder Like Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson is one of the best presidents who just served at a bad time as claimed by Kendrick A. Clements, a historian formerly at the University of South Carolina. Clements praises the Wilson administration for its foreign policies and helping America emerge as a world power. Jim Powell of the Cato Institute, on the other hand has a different opinion. According to Powell, Wilson is the worst president in American history. He says, in his need to join the…

The Confessions of Nat Turner, I have come to the conclusion that both writings have holes in their accounts, that almost any historian can find fault in. Grey was a struggling writer that needed the money and could say anything he wanted after Nat Turner’s execution since Turner was no longer alive to point out inaccuracies. Then Styron openly admits that he is not a historian, he is a novelist. A novelist that cares more about portraying a different storyline and a number of books sold, than…

simplistically lines the flow of the book out in the first chapter as well as the importance of gender in the Civil War and how it changed the world moving forward afterwards. Each essay is followed by the primary and secondary sources that the historian used to compose it, making it easier on the reader to check the accuracy and find more information about that specific topic. After Silber’s introduction the essays begin with Stephen Krantrowitz “Fighting Like Men” . Krantrowits opens readers…