History of writing

This history course was very eye-opening for me. I learned history that was different from history taught in classrooms. Authors and publishers of history textbooks can alter the information to make it appealing to their target audience (Loewen Ch. 1). I did not know this was allowed. I always believed that the information in history textbooks must be true. History textbooks have target audiences that they want to make happy. If these target audiences like how the history textbook portrays them…

one in Sind (India) and the other in Egypt". Herodotus' record of the immense African developments that crossed both the African mainland and quite a bit of South East Asia, was not the primary nor would it be the last perception by voyagers and history specialists alike, of the dark civic establishments in South East Asia. Landing in a few waves amid the sixteenth century, numerous European travelers composed and wondered about the developments they had experienced. In any case,…

Leonard Quart & Albert Auster (2011), they reveal that films have the ability to evoke the mood and tone of a society in a particular era. However, there was a time when a number of historians and social scientists were hesitant about accepting this truism. By films, one means not merely documentaries, which obviously directly capture something of the reality of people’s lives and feelings, but also mainstream Hollywood commercial films. It is not only that these films sometimes convey and…

Essay IV: Universal History (Marx v Hegel) The view of history as universal was a turning point for historians, who had until that point had a more isolated view of history, wherein it related to a single place and the series of events taking place there. Universal history described the history of the human race as a whole, and while this idea had been around since the time of the Romans, it become more developed in the nineteenth century. Two prominent proponents of this were German…

Wim Klooster’s Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History is a book that revolutionizes the connections between four major revolutions of the Atlantic World. Instead of examining strictly one revolution and comparing to another, Klooster utilizes both primary and secondary sources to compare and connect the four revolutions: “British North America (1775-1783), France (1789-1799), Saint-Domingue (1791-1804), and Spanish America (1810-1824).” Klooster’s work can be viewed at the…

in United States History, while The Invisible Man depicts the life story of a man who hides from the world and claims to be invisible due to his refusal for others to see who really is. Each novel is a fantastic read that leaves the reader extremely interested the entire way through, but does usefulness of the novel in historical research make…

compared to a biography. Biographies and microhistories have more 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…

dominated profession in the nineteenth century. Smith’s article argues, among other things, that the two practices in scientific history, the seminar and archival research, were fundamental as well as influential in the profession as the ideals of truth and objectivity. Smith also argues throughout her article that gender was a fundamental aspect of procedures in scientific history. Smith uses a variety of sources and quotations…

“a picture is worth a thousand words”, but can one really gain as much knowledge of an experience through an image rather than pages of textual descriptions of every detail? Generally, students are disengaged in the content displayed through a history book, primarily because they believe that they have no similarities between those living in the Gilded Age and find it hard to sympathize let alone understand any individual from that time period. When viewing historical events through a graphic…

Early American History Name Institution Abstract Early American history is riddled with numerous achievements by the founding fathers. Their contributions shaped the American political, social, and economic landscape. However, there is great concern that early American history fails to document the achievements of women and native leaders and other marginalized groups such as slaves. The early American history largely focuses on achievements of the central figures such as George…