Historical documents

A constitution is a written document that provides basic principles and laws that govern a nation, state, or group. This provides a foundation for rule of law, power and limits of the government, and the rights and duties of the people. The United States Constitution was constructed on September 17, 1789 (Scott, 2016) and has influenced other countries and states constitutions. Several states in the United States drafted their current constitutions after the United States constitution so…

comply to the interrogators by agreeing to the accusations and giving up his friends after they are accused of practicing witchcraft. Cory Giles character in Arthur Miller’s play titled ‘The Crucible’ share similarities as well as differences in his historical person. The similarity is seen through his refusal to plead guilty to the accusations while the difference comes in the form of accusations tabled against his wife, and Christianity at his time of death. The major similarity comes in…

way: 1. Religious beliefs 2. Humanity, 3. Natural history. From Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco perspective, the conquest of Mexico is the only strictly historical. The Annals of Tlatelolco is a codex manuscript written in Nahuatl by anonymous Aztec authors. Unlike the Florentine Codex, the Annals of Tlatelolco remained in indigenous hands. This document is the only one that has the day the Aztecs left Aztlan…

wanted. In the first document, the primary source “Description of Virginia” by John Smith, the purpose for writing this was to persuade people to go with him to colonize Virginia, propaganda that made Virginia sound better than it actually…

and significant contributors in the U.S during the 18th century came together to establish a federal government for America delegating the government certain, limited and enumerated powers. Most would argue that the Founding Fathers were important historical figures that laid out the framework of a successful, democratic government. They were able to create a thriving nation,…

The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis is a historical tale about sixteenth century identity fraud and the authors who wrote about the Martin Guerre trial. As a historian, Davis uses several forms of writing as her resources including “letter and diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, family histories…plays, lyric poems, and stories.” Davis realizes that these types of resources come with over-exaggerations, gaps, and contradicting perspectives, subsequently she supplements these with…

An Analysis in Support of the Moral Argument Against Slavery in Chandra Manning’s What this Cruel War Was Over This historical analysis will define the evolution of the moral argument against slavery as the reason for fighting the Civil War in Chandra Manning’s What this Cruel War Was Over. Manning’s (2008) argument is defined through the primary documents of Union and Confederate soldiers and abolitionist militants that viewed through the moral issue of slavery as the primary cause of the…

the opportunity to thoroughly research Cuneiform Law and the legal traditions of the historical civilizations. He evaluated and judged the facts he found in early records and legal documents, ancient artifacts, and museums using them to form his argument and effectively support it. A private generational home located in a small town outside of Kirkuk, Iraq yielded an archive of close to a thousand legal documents alone. The records, geographically stretched from Iran to the shores of the…

researched, Horn’s novel sheds new light on the colony’s social backgrounds of the settlers, and he offers a theory about what could have happened. A Kingdom Strange provides a vivid, detailed account of the historical facts many don’t know about. While combining historical facts with historical fiction, Horn does an influential job ensuring that the reader understands the struggle between Spain and England, as well as the misfortune of the first settlers. SUMMARIZATION: This short but…

Rather than blindly subscribing to fanciful martial metaphysics - it is important to document the sizable uptick in structural stress between Athens and Sparta that pushed the two nations towards war. Prior to the Persian invasion of Greece in 490, the Lacedaemonians had enjoyed dominance in the Greek Peninsula for nearly a century. Quaking…