Historiography

Slavery and Westward Expansion had a very volatile relationship in the Antebellum era America and would contribute to the American Civil War. Westward expansion and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 would be a way to preserve unity within the Union, but over the next 30 years, ties between the Northern and Southern states would be strained as more territory is gained and the question regarding slavery’s place within these new lands. Through an analysis of book and article sources, one gains the…

narrowly escaped the fire through the roof (Von Drehle, 2003, 243). Von Drehle also included quotes by witnesses such as William Gunn Shepherd, who arrived at the scene as the first bodies were falling from the building (Von Drehle, 2003, 157). One historiography that would be different is “Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy” by Albert Marrin. Like Von Drehle, Marrin talks about the reforms and changes brought upon after the fire, but Marrin jumps to the present day and…

In Nicholas Thomas’ book Colonialism Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government, he argues that colonialism is a cultural process and not a cultural system, meaning that colonialism isn’t simply a system of overstepping a foreign culture and manipulating it into your own in the ways of politics and economics, it’s a unique relationship involving signs, metaphors, and narratives. To truly understand the process and result of colonialism, we need to recognize and acknowledge there is a…

The historical political development of Latin America is one that has been wroth with bloodshed, disagreement, and ultimately compromise. As we begin to analyze this area of the globe and its current state of political development—ranging from the impending impeachment of Brazilian President, Dilma Rouseff to the crippling democracy occurring under the quasi-dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro—it is important to critically engage with the historical trends and values which gave rise to a continent of…

Construction of Alternate Mythology and History In G.Kalyan Rao’s Untouchable Spring Swasti Sharma Introduction The caste system finds its origin in functional groupings, called varnas, which have their origins in the Aryan society of ancient northern India. In their creation myth, four varnas are said to have emanated from the Primeval Being. The Creator’s mouth became the Brahman priests, his two arms formed the Rajanya warriors and kings, his two thighs formed the Vaishya landowners and…

The article “Job Market or Marriage Market?” was published by the History of Education Society on May 2007. The article can be found in the History of Education Quarterly’s 47th volume in the second issue. Joan Marie Johnson, author of Job Market or Marriage Market?, got her bachelor’s degree from Duke University and Ph.D. in the University of California Los Angeles. She is currently the Associate Provost’s Program Coordinator in the Northwestern University . Prior to this, she was the…

Another minority little spoken of in its service during World War II are Native American women, who indeed contributed to the war effort while also making great strides in their social transformation. Grace Mary Gouveia examines this period of time in history in the article ""We Also Serve": American Indian Women's Role in World War II,” with sources such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs publications as well as Indian school journals. The thesis of this article, that Native American women “took…

The Slave Community by John W Blassingame is a significant revisionist work that places the slave as an individual at the centre of its analysis and argument. In this book, Blassingame challenges the Elkin's thesis, arguing that slaves were able to retain significant sections of their African cultures through examination across several early chapters of cultural features such as music, religion, and folklore, and analysing slave familial structures and relationships. Blassingame rejects…

the written word (Strauss, 2011, p. 584). The authors of the Gospels gathered these verbal and written sources and produced their books based upon these historic accounts (Strauss, 2011, p. 584). Luke specifically displays “a strong interest in historiography”, by dating his work with references to “Roman history, identifying key rulers and religious leaders (cf. 1: 5; 2: 1 – 3; 3: 1 – 2)” proving “the historical veracity and worldwide significance of these events” (Strauss, 2011, p. 5874). We…

There is an extensive historiography available of both British eugenics and class. Despite this the secondary literature for this specific field suffers from some extremely significant limitations at present. This is particularly so when the intersection between class and eugenics is considered, as well as recent (post-1995) publication. References to the survival (or revival) of eugenic attitudes after 1970 are mostly short or passive, at best. For example, the chapter “Eugenics in Britain” by…