History of psychology

In this class I have learned so many important things. History is something that will live on forever, and this course has done a fantastic job of explaining things and showing me the background of our country. One of the most important things I have learned during this course, is the history of the Vietnam War. I never really thought about the Vietnam War before. I briefly studied it in a high school course, and knew the basis of the events, but I never thought about it deeply. It seems like…

In the last article that I used is a book review by Stephen Browne I found the text to be essential to my work. The book review discusses public memory as a narrative structure that serves as a rough organizational principle. It serves as a way to identify patterns of commemoration. The review offers a list of signpost to address the politics of memory. 1. Public memory which contains a slowly shifting configuration of traditions, is ideologically important because it shapes a nation’s ethos…

Group-defining Narratives When groups employ collective memory and heritage to construct their identity, they format the representations of pastness as narratives, easier to remember and far more interesting to tell or reenact than a list of raw facts devoid of a storyline. Much like the self-defining narratives discussed previously, these narratives reflect past events which the community believes are vitally important parts of their collective past which helps determine who they are in the…

“Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.” -George Santayana. As a person, when we make mistakes, we are told to learn from them to keep ourselves from repeating them over again. Some of the world’s worst mistakes are events that have happened multiple times, but instead of learning from it, we have chosen to forget about it, and we have had to rehash some horrific times. One time in which we have relived history is when both of the world wars happened. World War…

Listening to both of my grandparents' accounts of German U-Boats off the coast of Virginia Beach, blackouts in Norfolk, Virginia during World War II, and my grandfather's first-hand accounts of serving in the Navy triggered my interest in history. My curiosity about the past inspired me further by looking at family photographs, heirlooms, and letters that explored their backgrounds. When I attempt to explain to people what I am studying in graduate school, family and friends often look confused.…

1. Why does History matter? History first is the series of past events that connect to someone or something. History matters because it is what started the world today, most people do not know this but it represents the foundation of a culture. why things are the way they are now and why our world is so corrupted today. I know you all may know the saying "Stop living in the past" and work to move forward. History also matters because it helps us to learn who we really are and how great our…

To this day, the battle and the histories associated with the Alamo continue to generate feelings of courage, endurance, heroism, and patriotism in those who learn about the battle. Via analysis of the following sources gathered, I will investigate the ways in which modern historians explain how myths, legends, and stories of the Alamo influence American memory and culture. Cultural historians have approached this topic by analyzing the portrayals of the Alamo in popular culture such as TV shows…

America’s Gift to My Generation America is a gift from God. Just like America is giving a gift to us. Remembrance is America’s gift. Most of my generations don’t really know what happened in the past. My generation needs to learn remembrance. Of our soldiers who fought and still are fighting for us. Remember the past, but keep moving forward. We can make things better by remembering. Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the generations before it, and wiser than the one…

similarities than differences, but those differences transform them completely. Jill Lepore conveys this succinctly, writing, If biography is largely founded on a belief in the singularity and significance of an individual's life and his contribution to history, microhistory is founded upon almost the opposite assumption: however singular a person's life may be, the value of examining it lies not in its uniqueness, but in its exemplariness, in how that individual's life serves as an allegory…

History is the past analyzed and recorded, it is not everything that ever happened or everything that historians have already written about. While the existence of subjectivity in history is not often questioned many philosophers have rejected the possibility of objective historical knowledge. This essay seeks to explain the ways in which history consists of both elements of objectivity and subjectivity. Objectivity refer to the lack of bias. With this being said there is no objective truth…