Histories

Exploring history in the elementary classroom can be enjoyable, exciting, and eye opening when the teacher chooses the best methods to engage his/her students. Teachers who expose his/her students to history in a way that engages them in creative learning activities, makes history come alive in the classroom. When history comes alive in the classroom, students are inspired and excited about learning the events of the past. This inspiration and excitement leads to better understanding and…

studies. The only times I really remember doing anything history related was on specific holidays. The teachers on those days would discuss what the holiday was and why we celebrated it, but I don’t remember anything much deeper than that. I feel like high school is when I really learned anything about social studies. 2. While in college, I have taken two classes that fit into the “social studies” category. The two classes were History 101 and History 102. I would say that I gained a lot of…

The Theme in Japan’s History Japan’s history is one of the most fascinating histories to learn about and research. There are many different events in their history that shaped their country and have given them the identity of who they are right now as a country. There are many different themes that are present in this country’s fine history, but there is one theme that is the most important and influential that I believe is what makes Japan who they are now. In the previous lessons and readings…

The assigned book for this course is entitled “We the People: A Brief American History,” by Peter N. Carroll. In his book, Carroll gives a voice to women, minorities, and ordinary people, while allowing place for comparisons among different groups by unfolding problems and subject matter that affected each of them relative to U.S. history (Carroll XXI). The assignment for this week was to read chapters 1and 2. This paper will summarize some of what the author discussed in great detail in…

Michel Foucault wrote The History of Sexuality , which is a three volume analysis of sexuality in the western world. Foucault balanced this archaeological approach with a genealogical approach that he borrowed from Nietzsche. In the first volume, Foucault explorers the “repressive hypothesis” in which he says that the history of sexuality over the past three hundred years or so has been a history of repression. Repression is a manner in which a person is barred from expressing his or her…

Break a wall一 From painting to photography and photography to wildness At the beginning of photography’s history, the timing was indeed right for the invention of this technology and media. As Walter Benjamin observes in, “A short history of photography” : “The fog which obscures the beginnings of photography is not quite as thick as that which envelops the beginnings of printing. Perhaps more discernible for photography was the fact that many had perceived that the hour for the…

When reviewing the evolution of my worldview, Howard Zinn’s The Politics of History comes to mind. His book is a collection of case studies and essays that argue for a radical approach to the past. Zinn’s work changed the way I saw my purpose in life. I had originally planned to enter a field in science, despite my passion for history and the Humanities. In an age where the college degree had lost its traditional value, STEM fields seemed to me like the only practical route to success. However,…

Lincoln was forced out of a company he was invested in, placed a new patent on a revolutionary new product, and founded what would go on to be one of the greatest manufacturing companies in American history. (Unknown, N.D.) Given that the company 's founder, John C. Lincoln, fancied himself more of a "hands on inventor" type of leader, another family member, Mr. James F. Lincoln, brother of the fabled founder, soon joined the company. (Unknown, N. D…

high strung group of kids and more often than not my teacher would walk into class with us in tow crying our eyes out for what ever reason. Whether we were stressed out or just having a bad day we never failed to cry at least once a week in AP World History class. Because of this my wonderful teacher came up with a solution. He proposed that since we were a bunch of cry babies who could barely make it through a quiz before the water works started up that everyday at the end of class we would…

viewing something if the field of The Arts. Throughout history we have found that The Arts are used to express different forms of communication in different ways. Without noticing throughout your life you have seen multiple pieces of art and have had a connection to them. Through the cultural customs you have learned about n history class, or even a piece of literature read for an English assignment you have experienced a work of art. In history class we often learn of the Native American…