Histories

Some history events are essential evidences that illustrate ideas of how the event begins and ends. Some historians take a time to write books and articles about important events to demonstrate deep details that readers may not know about. Many historians have constructed an event to their own ideological beliefs to infiltrate those beliefs to the readers. Moreover, a Presidential history or a biography topic can be constructed with a lot of interpretations that results in arguments and…

The Human Record contains various sources of global history. Chapter 8 of this book covers a few topics from this history. One individual named Treitschke explains his views on monarchy and democracy. There were changes that occurred in Europe that led to an explanation of his views on human progress and war. The other individual mentioned in this chapter was Jules Ferry. He had strong views on the hierarchy of different races as well as the French colonies. Racism, Militarism, and the New…

A historian needs to describe the various influences of the age, the climate of opinion or intellectual atmosphere, and the effect of that period of history on subsequent centuries. Above all, the historian will attempt to show the meaning of the events so that readers will understand the significance of the period to human existence Porter, 2002). Could the Great Depression have been avoided? Most historians will agree that the two main factors that lead to the Great Depression were the crash…

The ancient Western world was a world filled with awe and wonder. Never once was there ever a sense of doing something solely for the sake of doing it. During this time, anything that was done was done to the pleasure (or displeasure) of the gods. The gods were treated with the utmost respect in the ancient world. These ancient civilizations are so interesting to us because they are so different us. The way the members of the ancient West lived out their daily lives was quite different to how we…

similarities than differences, but those differences transform them completely. Jill Lepore conveys this succinctly, writing, If biography is largely founded on a belief in the singularity and significance of an individual's life and his contribution to history, microhistory is founded upon almost the opposite assumption: however singular a person's life may be, the value of examining it lies not in its uniqueness, but in its exemplariness, in how that individual's life serves as an allegory…

Analysis of the Navajo, the Pashtuns, and Saudi Arabia The distant past is full of riddles without answers. There are many religions and worldviews, each with legends, myths, prejudices and ideals. Every culture owned secrets that were available only to those who belonged to the group and did not allow outsiders to become part of that culture. Today, many of these cultures and civilizations are extinct, without little or no evidence of their existence. However, the cultures that still remain…

According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, a historical novel is set in a period of history and works to convey the social conditions, manners, and spirits of the time in realistic manner. Also, a historical novel may have a mix of historical figures and fictional characters. An author of historical novels may choose focus on a specific event or the overall society and how a particular set of characters is affected by events of the time. Based on this view of a historical novel it may seem as though…

How do we study a historical event? A good way to learn about a historical event is through good collection of primary sources. Mark Wasserman’s The Mexican Revolution: A Brief History with Documents is just that. It is a good academic representation as well as a good teaching tool; while it has it shortcomings overall, it is a good collection of documents for the time period it covers. To start, this book gives a good academic representation of the Mexican revolution because it uses a…

In Ancient Law, Sir Henry Maine explores the development of law and social structures while simultaneously examining historical findings and their implications. His famous claim, “the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract” (Ancient Law, final sentence of Chapter 5), posits the stark contrast between law in the archaic world, which is based off “status” and law in modern world whose epicenter is “contract.” These differences aided in explaining…

“At the stroke of midnight in Washington, a drooling red-eyed beast with the legs of a man and a head of a giant hyena crawls out of its bedroom window in the South Wing of the White House and leaps fifty feet down to the lawn…then races off into the darkness...towards the Watergate, snarling with lust, loping through the alleys behind Pennsylvania Avenue, and trying desperately to remember which one of those fore hundred identical balconies is the one outside of Martha Mitchell's apartment… But…