Horrible Histories

Literature has always been a very important source of history. It has many ways of describing the past to us and has been used for nearly all of recorded history. Literature can help us remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust by describing their struggles and comparing them to others.It also sometimes explains how it affects us currently.The Diary of Anne Frank, Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and Maus are great examples. The Diary of Anne Frank shared many personal…

greater impact on history, culture and how the future sees the present (past) than most. An archivist can pick and choose which record, document or artifact can go into storage for later research. Not only that, but how it is cared for (arrangement/display) and put out for the public to view can affect what the public can see as what is considered and worthy or important or miniscule to record. One person can make many decisions, millions even, in a lifetime that can affect history, lives of…

Oral History: Effective or Defective? Oral history is a method used to attain historical knowledge through interviews and recordings of people’s memories of past events. Paul Thompson, the founder of the journal of Oral History, proclaimed, “Oral history is not necessarily an instrument for change; it depends upon the spirt in which it is used.” Most historians have mixed views on oral history. There are historians who question whether oral history is effective in the field of history, while…

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…

American history is what occurred in the past that has led to changes, growth and helps explain why today’s America is the way it is. Equality has been a consistent American struggle through history from before the Civil War to today. Equality is the right of different groups of people to receive the same treatment no matter how diverse the people(Merriam Webster). The meaning of equality in America has changed through the years based off of the rights that were accepted as society has grown.…

passage enhances the quality of Hitchens’s article. He starts off strong with a quote that highlights the significance of the Parthenon to draw the reader’s attention. Hitchens follows this with a description of the Parthenon’s hard and prolonged history. The author then provides some background knowledge, as the reader may not be as well learned about the topic as he is. Despite all the damage the Parthenon has gone through, Hitchens states that “one desecration and dilapidation [can be] ...…

American history is found in all the infrastructure, art and literature seen everyday by the average American. They hold hidden meanings through the passage of time that need to be discovered and interpreted. In the early twentieth century, America was leaving the prosperous but corrupt Gilded Age to enter a time of progressive movement. George Bellows, an Ashcan painter, illustrates the time period and change of American lifestyle with his realistic paintings of city life. Bellows did not paint…

Some history events are essential evidences that illustrate ideas of how the event begins and ends. Some historians take a time to write books and articles about important events to demonstrate deep details that readers may not know about. Many historians have constructed an event to their own ideological beliefs to infiltrate those beliefs to the readers. Moreover, a Presidential history or a biography topic can be constructed with a lot of interpretations that results in arguments and…

Historicism. As formerly stated, the eminent New Historicist Cathrine Gallagher is of the view that a critic should focus his attention on both the text and its historical context. As a matter of fact, The Yacoubian Building is a reflection of its historical context. In this literary text, Alaswany thoroughly probes the evils of the corrupt regime under Mubarak; he boldly discloses election forgery as well as the extortion and blackmail experienced by authorized people in order to…

I took over three college-prep U.S. History classes, one English as a Second Language (ESL) U.S. History class, and team-taught an Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. History class. When I joined the AP U.S. History class, the course was essentially finished because the AP test had been taken, and students were working on final projects. The college-prep and ESL classes , on the…