Native American history

Monument is a kind of the architecture for people to memorize the history and understanding the relationship between the past and the present. It records the history from the past, and present it to the future. The purpose of building the monument in the city is for reminding us what we have right now is depends on how many effort they (historical personage) did in the past. Monument is not only for people to memorize something, it also could be educational and motivational to the audience.…

History is always being created, but never changed or altered. Although something may have happened yesterday, today, it is now considered historic. The irony here is that whether it happened a few hours ago, yesterday, last week, or many years ago, it is still considered historic because it is now in the past. As stated by Dr. Drake in many lectures, “history does not necessarily repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” From 1865 to the 2000s, different areas of history have a stronger rhyming scheme…

Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen, many different important points are made about how the history textbook industry is corrupt, telling lies, or not telling the whole truth to the young readers. This should be very evident to most people, since textbooks spanning from elementary to high school often tell different pieces of information, and sometimes, complete opposite of those pieces of information. For years, history textbooks have been corrupted by the economically elite, and “teach” children…

History comes from the Greek word Historia and it means to learn or to inquiry. It’s a vague subject because there so much information that is involved and a lot it being left out. My arguments are do we lie about history to supply clean content to explain history to children in Elementary School systems; teach the true history in schools because children need to know; or wait until children are in college to teach history because the content is controversial. James Baldwin said it best with…

two-semester High School American History Survey course that is fifteen weeks long, the class will offer students with an overview of America’s past. The course will cover American History from Native America to the recent past. During both semesters, the course will challenge students to create thought-provoking questions on various topics in American History. Several of these questions will introduce thematic elements to the students, which are common throughout America’s history. Such…

History hasn’t always been a struggle for historians, but with new scholars in the field every day, new issues come up. Now the problem of narrativization, moralization and what the hegemonic narrative in a story is are big concerns among historians and historiographers, no matter what the topic is. Many scholars have tried to solve these issues and alternatives were proposed with side by side histories for example. Although the principal way of representing the past today still is the…

Historians use different formats to describe events in history. Some historians use videos to portray certain events while others use books to put their thoughts and opinions out to readers. In Custer on Canvas: Representing Indians, Memory and Violence in the New West by Norman K. Denzin, Denzin uses performance ethnography to tell the story of the events surrounding Custer’s Last Stand. Using this format was very ingenuous as it showed the many different sides to Custer’s battle. Presenting…

Feature Films Teach History? There have been numerous studies regarding whether or not movies can teach history. The debate is ongoing. Some historians think that yes, movies can teach history but many lean the other direction. Historians question the validity of a film because of characters that weren’t real, or relationships that didn’t exist. In the study, there are a few key players like Peter Seixas and Robert Rosenstone. Seixas, a historian and a professor, believes history can be taught…

represents history and culture in its films, most will agree that Disney’s portrayals are highly inaccurate. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is that Disney is working to better portray non-American cultures and history in their films. Whereas some are convinced that Disney has and still is inaccurately representing the history and culture of many other people such as the Chinese and Native Americans, others believe that Disney is now beginning to accurately portray Polynesian history…

The history of the Americas continent is pretty much alike, due to the late discovery of the land by numerous mainly European explorers. The establishment of United States is closely related to the settlement of English and also Spanish settler. Similarly, the history of the country right above America, which is Canada also related to England as well as France. The book I will be comparing with Loewen’s is Canada Revisited by Clark and McKay. Canada, now known as a multicultural and bilingual…