Historiography

the blame completely on Germany. However, historians nowadays tend to overlook this proposal and try to re-apportion the guilt, which is not merely based on either the sole-guilt thesis or the sole- innocence thesis. Four different trends in the historiography have appeared that explain how the war started with exonerating Germany from the sole war guilt. Annika Mombauer has clearly laid out these four trends in a review article and has stated that individual decision-making is the most…

Book Review Yarnell, Malcolm B. The Formation of Christian Doctrine. Nashville, Tenn: B & H Academic, 2007. 218 pp. $17.98 The Formation of Christian Doctrine , authored by Dr. Malcolm Yarnell, confronts the relatively uncharted challenge of forming a foundational free church theological method. Dr. Yarnell is director of the Center for Theological Research and a professor of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also serves as director of the…

suggests we should “engage in disciplinary reading” which requires “specific instruction” which only Social Studies teachers are “primed to provide” (Ibid). Shanahan offers strategies to accommodate different learners to thinking like a historian. Historiography or what helps historians do Shanahan defines as “an interpretive field that relies on evidence gathered and analyzed after an event has happened” is useful for not just historians to understand the world around them independently through…

History is the study of the human past. It is defined as a series of discourses about the world. Based on careful analysis of surviving primary or secondary texts and artifacts (objects made by humans), the historian attempts to reconstruct the past events and processes which have created the current world. Voltaire, a formidable satirist and polemicist, rejected the proposition of a divine providence in history. His quote “history is the common lie agreed upon” is a product of the times in…

comparison of Hitler with Napoleon argues that Hitler was inherently more evil than Napoleon. However, anyone with limited knowledge on the subject of European history would most likely draw the same conclusion. Despite these weaknesses, Lukacs’ historiography raises important questions and ensures no detail is…

The main theoretical text utilised in this historical analysis is Jan-Werner Müller’s What is Populism? Written during the 2016 Presidential election, its contemporary nature is appropriate to the content of this study. The focus of Müller’s text is defining what populism is, whilst providing historical examples that adhere to the definitions outlined. The primary use of the text in this study is defining precisely what populism is, for the purpose of applying that definition to three figures in…

the Latin and Germanic Nations , and causing history to be adopted by universities throughout the world. Yet historians after von Ranke have been critiquing him mercilessly ever since, such as Paul Veyne with his book Writing History: Essays on Historiography (1984). Veyne criticizes von Ranke for assuming that history can be completely and accurately…

In his book, Imagining Vietnam & America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, Mark Bradley departs from the conventional explanation of the catalysts of the Vietnam War as a product of Cold War tensions and fears. Instead, through his extraordinary and unprecedented use of Vietnamese primary sources, he draws attention to the popular perceptions that the Vietnamese and Americans held of one another following the end of World War II. This work is obviously thoroughly researched; nearly one-third…

Andrew Jackson never sought to be a controversial figure in American history. He was considered a great solider and a leader of men. However, in his presidency, they wondered about this same great soldier and thought he would make a great president. Although Jackson sought to prosper the American people, some of his decisions went down in history as the worst start of democratic government. Several historians wrote about his influence in American history and the beginning of democratic…

various schools of thought have generated differing opinions of the events surrounding this conflict. This has led to the war not only being studied, but also the individual historian’s directions being dissected as well. Examples of this shifting historiography can be observed within the edited collection of essays and sources within Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791, specifically within the chapter entitled “The British Empire and the War for North America”.…