Historical documents

has been lots of conspiracy surrounding her role in the life of Albert Einstein, the scientist who invented the relativity theory. There have existed a lot of theories about her involvement in the works of Einstein. In the past decade newly found documents have offered enticing glimpse of a woman who was ambitious and shared her husband’s interest in science. Translations of this evidence have brought about heated debates resulting into controversy on what role she really…

Archaeological Evidence & Historical Evidence Similarly any research done today on any time period from Ancient Rome to American history, using the archeological evidence and the historical evidence that is available can really be helpful for understanding a history. There is so much to be learned from the sources created by people who actually lived in the Roman Empire, even if years or generations had passed before they were documented. These forms of evidence can be enlightening but it is…

Using higher level and document based questions, students were forced to think about events more critically and reflectively. This requires students to take an in depth and critical approach to big events and decision in history and make a personal evaluation of them. In the second…

Austria. Austria became scared that Serbia would weaken its empire due to the fact that it had recently doubled its size and there was a growing demand for the union of all southern slavs including those who lived under the rule of the Austrian empire (Document 7a). Austria wanted to go to war with Serbia as a preventative measure to stop its growing power and because it feared the slavic people within its empire would rebel. It hoped war would help protect its power and the stability of the…

Bibliography Primary Sources: "1789: Constitution of the United States." Panchyk, Richard. Keys to American History: Understanding Our Most Important Historic Documents. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2008. When I read through this, I found that Lincoln had used the Constitution, a pro-slavery document, to help his cause against slavery. This document helped me see what Lincoln was thinking instead of what people thought 70 years before then. I’m going to use this source in my paragraph on…

words of encouragement. Thus, her narrative painted them in a more civilized and friendly manner than what we and Puritans at the time perceived them to be. Through weaving together these primary and secondary sources, Philbrick paints an excellent historical picture of the characters and their respective motives, desires and feelings during Mayflower, making a new and engaging story of the relationship between Pilgrims and their subsequent generations and the indigenous people in…

repeatedly stated their authority and influence through the implementation of this kind of devices. In medieval times were the majority of the population were illiterate, seals came handy to prove that documents were original, and nowadays, they may be useful to analyse sources and have a historical background of the origin and purpose of some…

When it comes to any important historical document, there are going to many different interpretations. Everyone will be given the same text to read, but very few people will be able to completely agree as to what it means. This idea isn’t even specific to documents like the Constitution, it holds true with just about any reading. When it does come to the Constitution, the question as to what it means is as big as ever. Tribe and Dorf start off their paper talking about the purpose of the…

form of the Old Testament is a compilation of several stories, documents, manuscripts that were authored by various people, who lived in different places, at different times and had their own specific religious views to express. To date the oldest of these biblical texts to be discovered were dated to 700BC as well as others such as the Dead Sea Scrolls that were written around 300BC. At this time there are no complete original documents, scrolls or manuscripts of the Old Testament that are…

Shortly before the start of James Monroe’s presidency and after the War of 1812, a historical period known as the “Era of Good Feeling” commenced in America. During the Era of Good Feelings, the country utilized the driving force of nationalism to unify itself through its time of prospering and developing as a nation. However, territorial and state rights were extremely imperative for the country's political agenda. The question of sectionalisms effect has not as often been discussed even…