History of writing

Gerda Lerner was an influential figure in the development of women’s gender history since the 1960’s. She was one of the founders of women’s history and played a key role in developing women’s history curriculum. She was a rebel and didn’t believe in following the rules or conforming to society from her teenage years. In her early career she became an author and also became a national leader in the Congress of American Women where she worked with poor black women where she began to understand…

all we hear about as we’ve grown up is connected and possibly untrue. The book The Edge of the World, written by Michael Pye allows us to have a different view of our past and things in it that we may never have known.With a conventional view of history has the dark ages beginning with the decline of Rome in the 400s and the lights not coming back on until the Renaissance and a millennium later. But it has become increasingly popular to wonder whether there wasn’t something going on in all that…

educate degree seeking students on many things that are essential to every career. Without being educated in the humanities, students are missing out on skills and information that are not taught in the STEM subjects such as foreign language, culture, history, literature and philosophy. The humanities subjects should be incorporated into the STEM curriculum so that students can focus on their career path as well as learn things that are significant to their career as well as their everyday life.…

Hiding the Truth Most students will study U.S history in American high schools simply because it is a requirement. The government believes it important to know how we became an independent nation and our past struggles before we can make decisions about the future. Some may be excited to learn about events such as the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, while others actively dislike any type of history. However, U.S History has a huge potential to be intriguing and eye opening to all…

individual is what allows the message to have an influence on history. Two examples of this personal connection between people and the messages they are given are the dream that Clytemnestra has in The Oresteia, and the oracle recounted by Herodotus in The Histories. The dream Clytemnestra has is very personal, yet to the audience it reveals attitudes and values present in Athenian culture that might not have been obvious otherwise. In The Histories, the oracle's message relates the larger…

transformed the study of history to a continuous and research driven university discipline. It is important to note that the study of history was not created by Stubbs as it was present for centuries. However through Stubbs’s work the subject of history began to have an impact for academic studies and future historians. The legacy of Stubbs can be seen through the introduction of the Constitution History of England. Stubbs’s articulates a warning to his audience before reading the history of the…

different genres. History could be categorized for this book since its time and date is in the late eighteen hundred and talks about historical events. The book explains events that truly did happen; such as, the opening day of the fair had a few estimates of how many people attended it which would be around five hundred to six hundred thousand (239). Larson did enough research of the time period and events so that most of the information given in the text is accurate to history. Dates and…

Oral history and written accounts are products of memories, which are transformed into text for future civilizations to store and analyze. It is important for different cultures to instigate the importance of retaining memory as it through this trait that their accomplishments and failures will be remembered. Nevertheless, memories face a fatal flaw considering they are the product of humans, who are inevitably driven by specific interests including political, self, and economic to manipulate…

Martin Luther King Jr once said “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” Some would agree with this statement. Some would disagree. It’s an eternal debate over the role history plays in the present. And often, more importantly, the question is what is history itself and whose narrative is at the core. In her reflective, but argumentative, essay entitled “In History”, Jamaica Kincaid analyzes how these ideas-- what is history and how does what happened in the past impact us today--…

Comparison Between Historical Accounts There have always been many different points of view throughout various points in history. Many of these perspectives talk about the same events through different eyes. Of course, there will always be little changes in the accounts here and there, but they generally seem to run along the same course. James Fraser’s By The People and William Polk’s The Birth of America are two examples of different viewpoints on the same historical events. They both offer…