Historical documents

al. (2012) introduce, in their contribution, a recently-discovered collection of Dutch documents from the second half of the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. These Dutch documents contain more than 38,000 commercial and private letters. Van der Wal et al, begin by presenting the background to the sailing letters, which are kept in the National Archives (Kew, UK), indicating their socio-historical linguistic value and illustrating some cases. They also reveal the problems they faced…

distracts from the deeper meaning of the oppression and prosecution of Guatemalans. I personally enjoyed their paralleling of Menchu’s story to historical documents and found that to be a useful way for comparing historical and modern subjective documents. If my interviewee allows this/is relevant to what develops I would love to bring in historical documents to emphasize themes and meaning. The Janesick article traced the history of oral history in its various forms and pointed out the reasons…

text for this tune, is quite remarkable for all Christians. This historiography will examine the ITALIAN HYMN and its theological message. A historical analysis of the hymn tune and text will be presented in order to clarify the origins of this remarkable hymn tune and its theological foundations. Historical and Theological Foundations According to historical studies, the poetry of the hymn Come Thou Almighty King was composed first and then Felice de Giardini created the melody for this hymn…

Nina, I like your idea about providing documents that reflect only one point of view and asking students to take the other side. I will try that in my class. Thanks! This back and forth between Stan, Harry, and Philip captures the depth of a conversation that might happen in a department professional development session between colleagues that have worked together for years; however, this was an asynchronous conversation between two Ohio teachers and a California teacher whom have never met.…

ability to interpret important historical resources such as journals, historical documents such as the Constitution, or, in this case, historical letters such as Mary Todd’s. Primary documents, cursive or not, provide one with first-hand knowledge of what was happening during the era in which it was created. This first-hand knowledge can be vital to the understanding of any given time period. Mary’s letter is a perfect example of why it is important to study historical…

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…

In the research, the question will be answered via the method of historical archives study. The first step is to choose proper archives to collect useful data, next is to categorize them by their internal relations of logic and relevance to the research question. Since the documents from archive are viewed as direct evidence of the past, they will be used as supporting evidence of the question. There will not be too much…

Independence, while steering through the purposeless righteous rambles, by dissecting the five elements of the document…

July 8th, 2009, which provides a current historical and fictional evaluation of the Donner Party’s tragic journey to California. Oxford University Press, a prestigious academic publisher, is the publisher of this book. This book is comprised of 304 pages, which tell the story of the Donner party through the perspective of different family members, archeological evidence, and relatives. In this book, Rarick (2009) attempts to provide a scholarly historical examination of the true events of the…

Washington are two complete different people from different time periods where one had slavery and the other aimed to abolish it. In a compare and contrast of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington each one having their own personal lives, family, and historical actions, which made up some of their differences. Firstly, Abraham Lincoln was never a person who said that an African American and a white person were equal, but instead said that they were man like them so they should be allowed to…