Historiography

Historiography, which is the study of historical writing, allows an individual to research many different viewpoints of a historical event, in order to develop a more objective understanding of that time or event in history. Historiographers, those who practice historiography, play a crucial role in developing the history that is studied around the world. In this practice, historiographers…

From the beginning of time and throughout the modern day there has been conflict caused by the greediness of mankind. History has been taken advantage of and used as a stepping stool for greater accomplishments made out of the successes and failures of the past. These stepping stools are based off of what mankind forces itself to believe actually happened during the past. A true rumination of history and war creates an unbalanced idea of the past and its “factual” concepts. The concept of…

Heather Perry’s Recycling the disabled, explores the mechanized, industrial production of turning disabled army veterans back into the depleted German workforce. Looking at army veterans during and after the First World War (1914-1918), Perry asserts that the “recycling of the disabled” was a combination of culture, medical and military processes. The War itself becomes the catalyst for this mobilization, creating a redefining of orthopedic medicine, economic reconstructing of the labor sector,…

Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Americans has not been removed from the story. In fact, their role has even expanded from the influential work of Herberg. While studies in the various religious minorities have increasingly been included in the historiography covering religious pluralism in the United States after the end of World War II, much work still remains on covering certain religious groups, such as Native American/tribal and even African American religious faiths. Furthermore,…

of England. He was canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint in 1935.n More is also thought to have written History of King Richard III (in Latin and in English) between 1513 and 1518. The work is considered the first masterpiece of English historiography (the study of history, or the study of a particular historical subject), and,although it remains unfinished, it influenced several historians, including William…

Mary Roberts dissects the post World War I, French societal view of women. In a socially tumultuous, economic changing French world, Roberts uses literature to determine the ideas and constructions of women. Robert highlights the war as a critical element in this manuscript, providing this and exponential technological changes as the backdrop for this rapid change. She investigates how the French used gender to navigate the changing social and cultural tensions after a war that seemly…

Doyle, Don H. The Cause of all Nations: An International History of the American Civil War. Basic Books, NY. 2015. The years of the Civil War are often characterized merely by the fighting between the Union and Confederacy as a moral conflict over the practice of slavery. The Cause of all Nations entertains a new look on the period. Don Doyle, a historian who specializes in the Civil War includes evidence which brings to light this missing piece: the interaction of foreign nations with the…

In The Economic Growth of the United States 1790-1860, Douglass Cecil North examined the development of the nation’s economy. This book was meant to be a study in both economic growth and the economic history of the United States. North told his story of the United States shifting from a national economy centered around foreign trade to one centered around interregional flow of capital and goods bringing the United States’ economy into the larger context of an Atlantic one, North began his…

Eric Foner’s “A Short History of Reconstruction” is an updated, abridged edition of “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution.” This book redefines how the Reconstruction Era is viewed, in ways historians have not done before. Foner chronologically starts with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to validate his statement that “Reconstruction was not only a specific time period, but also the beginning of an extended historical process: the adjustment of American society to the end of…

be presented to Jerry in a familiar way in which he could draw clear parallels between historical progress and the state of the present. Assignments would include the development of historiographical knowledge or allow him to develop his own historiography under…