Social history

project’s broad questions, my research will incorporate and entwine several themes. These themes include the history of federal immigration policies from 1980’s onward, Charlotte's immigration and New South history, non-profit history, and the history of immigrant integration. The central historiography I will address, focuses on the history of various nonprofits' ability to achieve their political, social, and ideological goals (such as immigrant integration). I plan to engage with the…

In Chapter 1 of “What Is History,” Carr demonstrates how one should use historical facts. Most importantly Carr shows that in the 19th century, historians of the west, for the most part, had a positivist view. What this means is that they viewed historical facts as information that was not aligned with any person’s opinion. Carr noted that this view is faulty because historians choose which facts of the past are deemed historical fact if they’re important enough. For example, Carr states that…

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…

question what was in your primary and secondary school history textbooks? Textbooks that are written by experts are voted on by the state school board. If the content of the textbooks does not meet the board’s standards, the textbook is not adopted, even if what the expert wrote is fact based. In recent years, state school boards have started to scrub history textbooks to censor out unpopular facts of history on the premise that they are making history that is presented in classrooms more…

Great history provokes narrative and depiction, but eludes clarification. Such is the case of Dr. Jesus de la Teja essay the Saltillo Fair and its San Antonio Connections where he explores the development of early Texan society, exposing the economic hardships of the time and the critical role of early traditional open markets (in this case the Saltillo Fair) while overlooking the importance of asserting the origin of those individuals mentioned in the text, these are the Mulattoes or native…

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…

be an immaculate reflection on Harper’s rewriting of history, seen by Jack Granatstein as a way to de-politicize emphasis on social history and restore the place of military history in education. This focus of Confederation and military history, in particular the World Wars has not been without its critics. One of the foremost was the Canadian Historical Association and its concern that the weight on military history obstructs social history expressing progressive causes. These concerns were…

an urban context, what makes artifacts’ character “distinctive” and “definitive” is not only their physicality but also their memory. To this end, Also Rossi’s argues for “the soul of the city” as the city’s history, its memory. Although we all travel backward in time through memory, history and memory should be distinguished totally from each other, the former belongs to a specific point which got already expired in the time-line of universe- only if such time line could be imaginable, but the…

Michel-Rolph Troillot’s Silencing the Past examines the various perspectives that existed contemporaneously during the Haitian revolution in order to bring the past into the view, and convince us that the history that is presented to us in textbooks by historians and politicians as absolute, is actually a collection of particular narratives that present themselves as objective and linear while silencing other competing narratives. Troiullot brings the Haitian revolution into focus and uncovers…

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…