Horrible Histories

show evidence to support W. E. B. DuBois statement that history loses it value when only one side of the story is told. James Loewen mentioned several historic figures in his book who are mostly recognized as heroes, such as Hellen Keller, Columbus, and Woodrow Wilson. These people’s inspiring stories are shown in traditional textbooks but seldom the story of failures. When it comes to nationwide historic events, due to many reasons, history textbooks tends to emphasize more on the successful…

Kingdom of Heaven, like most Hollywood movies, make learning about history both informational and entertaining at the same time. However, like all things they have their flaws. Despite the outstanding battle scenes, not all aspects are historically, or even realistically accurate. If you know anything about history, watching movies like these, you are bound to find many inaccurate things, but as we all know Hollywood is not graded on its accuracy, but on its ability to entertain their audience.…

So many people are important to history. Usually those important people have things to teach the world. Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, a Holocaust and Auschwitz survivor, is one very important person with many lessons to teach. In Sara Nomberg-Przytyk’s autobiography Auschwitz: True Tales of a Grotesque Land, Nomberg-Przytyk illustrates her importance as she teaches readers about themselves and karma through examples of other people. Importance can be shown through what one has done with their life and…

international relations scholar would take into account the past as a force that generates the questions and theories of both parties. On the other hand, there lies a difference in the way that the historian would place more emphasis on recounting history and international events for their own sake. The IR scholars would contrastingly use historical events as ways to additionally supporting or discrediting a theoretical hypothesis they have proposed. In this way, their differences in methodology…

II. What is History? History is a record of events and times, especially in connection with the human race. Everything in the universe has a history. It is critical to inquire about the particular brand of history being used as a framework in either written pieces or conversation. Traditional history, or rather the discipline of history, was founded by Leopold von Ranke. Ranke believed that its was a historian’s job while studying the past to be somewhat detached from it. This is necessary…

In our history, there have been countless historical periods, which have impacted our world in various ways. These historical periods involve any situations from political, social and economic events that have occurred. In this essay, I will be describing the economic, social, and political distinctions of three historical periods. The historical periods I will be discussing are The Antebellum Period, the Civil War and the Market Revolution. Furthermore, let us start by discussing the antebellum…

long lost history. He shows a great deal of determination and drive when searching to tell history as it happened, and not the way other view it. Other historians interpret, view, and translate history in all kinds of different ways and that shows through in their writings and paintings of history. This could possibly skew the past making it hard to determine between what actually happened and what people claim happened. Davy Crockett and the Alamo are a very important parts of Texas history,…

story of two sisters, Olanna and Kainene during the war. There are many themes that are shown within the relationships of multiple people. The readers read through many sufferings, losses, and horrible struggles in the novel. This allows the readers to get on a personal relationship with the time in Nigerian history. When reading threw the novel there are many remarkable details about Nigera. The novel is all about politics and relationships, which all occurs within the main characters.…

Slavery was a horrible event that happened in American history and it should have been abolished, not expanded. With that being said, the cotton gin also impacted the production of cotton in a good way. The cotton gin made it fifty times faster to separate cotton than by doing it by hand…

Throughout history, a variety of foods have allowed the modern world to gain a historical understanding on the big history and world history of our modern world. The Sichuan cuisine originating from China is a great example showing the impact of food culture and identity in our current society. The Sichuan pepper, is called huajiao in Chinese, meaning flower pepper, and the Sichuan cuisine is undisputedly the most popular cuisine known to China to this current date. Through evaluating the big…