Historian

The article “War in the Lay of the Cid” by Francisco Garcia Fitz argues how the epic poem Lay of the Cid is best used as a historical document illustrating “the art of war”, as Fitz calls it on page 62, in the middle ages. The author argues that the poem can best be used as a primary source of military life in the Middle Ages, more specifically from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries when the poem is believed to have originated. The argument continues that while the poet loosely based his poem…

examination of “Time in the cross: the economics of American Negro slavery,” by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman and other various economic commentators, critics and historians, slavery will be looked at through both a short and long-term perspective as it relates to the…

starting point, though some historians view them as an outgrowth of earlier seventeenth-century sentiments. Other historians posit and argue that the Ranters are a religious invention. Religious dissenters, such as the Quakers, needed scapegoats to explain the moral and social declination occurring in English society, creating the term Ranter. Writings and pamphlets from the period, though, clearly indicate that contemporaries believed select individuals truly adhered to the beliefs of…

Jefferson’s opinion regarding slavery is a highly debated topic between historians. In his early days, Jefferson made it very clear that he is anti-slavery. In the original declaration, Jefferson denounced slavery and made it clear that he is against it. He used phrases like “assemblage of horrors” or “a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberties” to prove that slavery needs to be abolished. Although Jefferson took a stance against slavery,…

The history of the Holocaust is one that continues to captivate the minds of historians, sociology, political scientist, and popular culture. One of the many lasting legacies that continues to haunt the memories of individuals concerning the Holocaust is the idea that six million people could be exterminated by a “western” modern, capitalist society while the rest of the world stood and watched. Nazi Germany created the environment where Jews and other undesirables such as gays, gypsies, and…

In the cycles of the art world, artistic styles progress over time and new innovative techniques embody an era, but the past periods never truly fade from the mind of the artist, hence periods like the Renaissance, a rebirth of an older era of art. However this retrospective obsession with art can meddle up an art history timeline if a statue is not properly dated to the correct era. This is case the regarding the Piombino Apollo, a statue found at sea in 1832 with a complex history of study…

Theory, and the Solutrean Theory. Up until the last few years, the Beringia Theory was widely believed. Now, as more evidence is found, other theories are coming into the light. The Beringia Theory has been the most commonly believed theory by historians. This theory states that the early people traveled across the Bering Land Bridge from Russia to Alaska. These people were Ice Age hunters, who followed their food south, and eventually spread throughout North America. Evidence indicates that…

Chapter 3 will cover the women of the frontier have been studied extensively by Glenda Riley, writes generally on the women of the frontier and their relations with Indians. Other historians have considered pioneer women, these monographs focus predominately on the social and cultural interactions of women in the West. Riley’s publications contrast with others as she discusses more thematic and comparative areas of women’s frontier history: discussing the oversight in Frederick Jackson…

7-1: Milestone Four: Rough Draft Thomas Jefferson was both a philosopher and a politician. It could be argued that he was one of the best political minds of the eighteenth century. His genius was, “Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously.” He had struggles in his lifetime, was curious and had knowledge on almost every subject, having read 6,487 books, that were just in his home library. Yet,…

Modern historians had altogether reached to the argument in which one could never blame entirely a specific nation for the outbreak of World War 1in 1914. Apparently, many immediate and underlying causes were responsible for this acute destructive catastrophe resulted in a complete chaos throughout European nations: severe damage in one’s nation military forces; millions of soldiers sacrificed, especially men; loss of countless innocent lives; corrupted dynasties; economically decline due to the…