Historiography

Popkin, D. Jeremy. Herodotus to H-Net :The story of Historiography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. In the book called Herodotus to he-net that was written by Jeremy Popkin talks about the idea of how historiography started overtime and how it developed. It happen during the Cold War where it began to change in the U.S and the other countries during that time like the civil right movements for equality with Africans and Latinos, in the universities the students begun to tell their…

In 1944, Eric Williams published Capitalism and Slavery and forever changed the historiography of abolition, capitalism and slavery. His publication was an attempt to redefine the slave trade influences on the British Industrial Revolution and to challenge the traditional influences for the abolishment of slavery. For the first time since…

The narratives of transgender, transsexual, cross-dressing, and female impersonating individuals have been left out of the historiography of the civil rights movement and the LGBT movement. The first to write about individuals outside of normative gender binaries were medical professionals in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century.…

The historiography of Native Americans after European colonization is rather limited compared to American history, or even African American history in the United States. The lack of credible resources leaves anyone trying to research or obtain a clearer picture of the events with the words of President Jackson, and the possible hypothesis, not much occurred after relocation. The assumption is rather plausible; without knowing the historiography, one could assume Native Americans…

narrative is recycled over time and told over and over again despite it often being false. Historians like Francis Jennings and Michael Witgen use their scholarship research to combat a false representation of Native Americans in history. Using historiography, these two authors, like many others, look to disprove what's been circulating. Positives and weaknesses aside, their work serves to illustrate strong examples of a survey of their field during the 1970s and the late 2000s. Over time, the…

contributing to Holocaust historiography. With its strength of appealing to both academic and layman, Friedländer’s cumulative Volume offers a powerful educational and emotional tool to understanding Shoah remembrance and…

for 30 years. His own publishing company printed the book. Although he studied history, there is no evidence that suggests he has knowledge in Canadian American relations. Therefore, people could see this more as an opinion piece rather than historiography. If Lippert had included more about his work and his authenticity, the book would do extremely well. Unlike Lippert, Boyko includes these features, which help him create a strong…

The image that Christopher Columbus gives to many individuals is the image of the man who ‘discovered’ the New World. His stumble onto the Americas during his Great Voyage, had a great impact on the history that was yet to come. However, many individuals question whether Christopher Columbus was a true hero or a villain. While some historians view him as a man-slaughtering villain, other individuals prefer to praise him for his help in beginning colonization in the Americas. Many of Columbus’s…

Questioning Identity: Examining the Historiography of South Asian Immigrants The historiography on South Asian immigration to the United States needs to be further developed because it is extremely under-developed. While the story of their immigration to America does not follow the popular narrative of other American-bound immigrants, in which most came to straight to the United States and settled, there is no excuse for their historiography and all its unique facets remaining unexplored. The…

We understand embodied historiography to be an evolving fusion of methodologies from oral and public history, theatre, and new media technologies developed specifically within this project. Individually, I am writing this analysis from the perspective of a humanities-grounded collaborator…