Historiography

Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin & the Great Depression, written by historian Alan Brinkley, offers a compelling and intriguing voice to the already existing debate surrounding Huey Long and Father Coughlin. Both historical figures lived during the time of the Great Depression and, as argued by Brinkley, were important in the politics of the New Deal. Huey Long, nicknamed “the Kingfish,” was the governor and state senator of Louisiana who wielded power in the state so profoundly…

principles, and that the document rejected those key principles, and adopted a doctrine more favorable to the “aristocratic” men who held the power and abandoned the true “republican” form of government the Patriots had so tirelessly fought for. This historiography is gravely inaccurate considering there is no set definition of what the principles of the American Revolution are. In a letter to Mercy Otis Warren, John Adams wrote, “the principles of the American Revolution may be said to have…

generalization for which Wray coins the expression stigmatype of poor whites. Since revolutionary era, stigmatypes of whites have functioned as powerful representation assets for building up limits of incorporation and segregation. Methodologically, the historiography draws on various resources, including archival reports, writings, and exploratory records. Wray thinks about a few periods in United States history wherein poor whites were the topics of active and open discussion revolutionary…

Cambodia Under The Khmer Rouge, 1975-79. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 18 Sept. 2015. The Pol Pot Regime : Race, Power, And Genocide In Cambodia Under The Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 by Ben Kiernan is a historiography reading that provides a timeline on the events that occurred before the regime, during their rule and how it came to an end. He takes the reader through a round table discussion that started it all. Kiernan continues to delve into the…

a lapse in time where “culture” is essentially dead. Similarly negative depictions have molded the public’s perception about the character and culture of this time period, from as early as 1908 productions of Robin Hood. Even as development of historiography is constantly reshaping our understanding of history, recent productions of Norse mythology in the 2011 movie Thor continue to…

The Milgram Experiment - Examining the Role of Authority in the Social Contract Using Foucault as a Basis Authority serves as the adhesive which binds all members of society to their roles within the social contract. Michel Foucault explains how authority in the modern disciplinary society could be better enforced by establishing proper hierarchies and creating confinements and labels for the undesirables in society (Foucault, D&P p. 224 & M&C p. 37-38, 1975 & 1988). In the Milgram experiment,…

Given enough time, a researcher could likely find an academic journal article on domesticated llama herding in the Southern Andes, 1820-1824. This type of micro-study has come to dominate the historical field since the 1970s as specialties continue to branch off into more specific subsections. Not so with Guns, Germs, and Steel, a big history with one specific goal, to answer the question of why some societies dominated others in modern history. Wasting no time in stating his focus, Jared…

Shohat, Ella. "Notes on the "Post-Colonial"." Social Text, no. 31/32 (1992): 99-113. doi:10.2307/466220. This essay serves as a close-reading of the notions of temporality and teleology and the ways in which they are deployed as feedback loops between postcolonialism and neocolonialism in Ella Shohat’s article titled “Notes on the “Post-Colonial””. The Past in the “Post”and “Colonial” “The colonial in the “post-colonial” tends to be relegated to the past and…

In historiography, the 20th century notion of the economic rationale for fighting the Civil War has become a dominant ideology, which tends to discount the moral tenets of Southern Christian in contrast with the religiosity of Northern Abolitionist ideology. Manning…

Robert Eskildsen’s paper, “Of Civilization and Savagery: The Mimetic Imperialism of Japan’s 1874 Expedition to Taiwan,” provides a fresh turn in the historiography of Japanese imperialism by examining and revisiting imperialist aspects of Japan’s 1874 Taiwan Expedition and its connection with the process of Japan’s modernization from a cultural perspective in commercial representations of the event. This review paper gives a recapitulation of the article and an evaluation on its arguments and…