Horrible Histories

cultural history. As the film progresses, it discusses the dominance of the elite or majority over representation, which allows the creation of an “authorized” historical perspective, leaving no room for discussion of other probable conclusions pertaining to historic events. In contrast, Lumumba: Death of a Prophet displays the uncertainty of distinctiveness that comes in relation to the accepted reality (conventional mainstream) that we allow to define our awareness of the world. As history is…

large painting that is drawn directly in the surface of a wall or ceiling. In addition, murals convey the intent of the muralist which can be about the history or the important moments in the past, things in life or just simply to decorating. After a day going around Berkeley, I found out there is a historic mural named "Incidents in California history" which is located at the Berkeley Main Post Office. Accordingly the name of the mural, it depicts the beginning of the state called "California".…

Gold Coast and Hinterland Historical Society work tirelessly to preserve local history. However, senior volunteers warn Gold Coast history is under threat of disappearing, advising it may never be recovered if this occurs. Former Historical Society President and fourth-generation Gold Coaster Bob Nancarrow believes ignorance poses the greatest danger, explaining many residents are unaware the Gold Coast even has a history. “When I say my family’s been here since 1880, they take about five…

“Dead Man’s Chest.” In the first movie the “Pearl” is simply black with ripped sails. It has a haunted crew. The crew is cursed to be immortal because they stole aztec gold. They mention the name “Cortez” in the movie. That is true, according to history. In “Dead Man’s Chest” the ship, the Flying Dutchman, is crewed by drowned sailors. The ship and the crew can fully submerge and travel…

regions, and eras in history, their research process calls for analysis to investigate how historiography and methodologies interact.…

Before written history can recall, slavery has existed and been a problem prominent throughout time. The desire for power and money were powerful driving forces that contributed to introducing the concept of slavery; personal gain and greed triumphed and encouraged the abuse and disregard of human ethics. One of the most notable cases of wide-scale slave trading is that of the Transatlantic Slave trade. Its massive traffic of enslaved individuals across centuries earned its way to become one of…

Sidney Mintz in Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History interprets the Caribbean history by analyzing the Caribbean production of sugar and its European consumers. Mintz approaches the methodologies of cultural history, Marxism historiography, and anthropology in analyzing the production and consumption patterns, plantation slaves and industrial workers, and the usage and its meanings in modern culture. Mintz claims that sugar necessitated European imperialism, and that empire…

In his biography he use the term ‘”middle passage’” (Equiano and Seid, Flyover History p.49) to label the route from his homeland, Africa, to the New World. With this unique, first person, experience it has been understood the cruelty lived in the ships and the infernal conditions that they were put thru. Slaves were placed in confined…

research on the Southern Cotton Industry during the reconstruction era. McLaurin was interested in raising issues about American slavery around the time period of the 1800’s, so he goes about doing this by using Celia’s story as an example of this horrible time. McLaurin’s research gives so much information that backs up the many details of a “bad life as slaves”. In this story McLaurin explains the trial that celia had to endure, Celia was a 19 year old that lived in missouri and was claimed by…

Overall, this article states that the slave auctions were a huge factor in understanding the life of a slave because without this, there would be no primary source, and without primary source, we in this generation would not know a bit about this horrible piece in our American…