Social history

In chapter 7, Arnold looks at how a true picture of history can be obtained. It is sometimes difficult to get a true history when we have multiple opinions and perspectives. For example, in the book Arnold discusses Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech recited before the Ohio Woman's Rights Convention and how there are two different accounts of what Sojourner Truth said. The first account was written by Marius Robinson, who was a white man who made Sojourners truth sound true. He wrote his account…

that “To recover the history of common people required new methods to exploit sources beyond the letters, journals, memoirs, essays, and sermons produced exclusively by “the most affluent and educated class of people (p. ix-x).” As mentioned in the preceding quote, it is far easier to uncover history about the lives of the opulent, because they have both the time and the resources unwittingly develop primary source documents throughout their lives. “Conceived of as a social being, a composite…

What is culture? Culture is the beliefs, customs, and arts of a particular society, group, place, or time. Many Americans underestimate the importance of culture in history; however, culture and history have a direct relationship. When a historical event happens, usually there is a change in social culture; for example, the great depression was a historical event that cause a change in people’s lifestyle (cultural change). People went from attending expensive parties, eating a lot of food, and…

As Martin Luther King Jr once said, “we are not makers of history; We are made by history.”. By this he means that we are shaped by our past, everything that has happened, has happened because certain people wanted it to. We can't change the past but we can make the future. And throughout time society has continued to change. We strive to create change so the world will become better. Looking at the past there are many great changes that have influenced who we are today as a society. However…

“The Postmodernist Turn” by J. David Hoeveler Jr. was written about the 1970s during what is called the postindustrial period. Throughout the 1970s the United States became the world’s foremost postindustrial civilization. There were new conditions that changed the way Americans operated, and even their insights of reality. Chapter 1 of “The Postmodernist Turn” is about postindustrailism after the second industrial revolution, the second chapter of “The Postmodernist Turn” is called wars of…

The Stolen Legacy speaks about social reformation through new philosophies. By subverting people’s beliefs of origins, it establishes a new hierarchy or understanding of world order. In this way, the Greeks stole the Legacy of the African Continent and called it their own. This has shifted power from Africa to Europe, who believe they have civilized most of the worlds undeveloped populations. As a result of this dishonesty has been the creation of an inaccurate world opinion. It has meant that…

art, but also the history of the research and what is up and coming. Ivory gives a distinct history of the Marquesas Islands art and culture and how it has not received proper research and data collection. The intent of the article is to give reason to learn more about Marquesan art and give it the deserved recognition from both a historical and cultural perspective. Ivory begins with a brief overview of the Marquesas Islands culture and describes the complexity of their social and…

The similarities between Athenian and American Democracy Once a writer said, “History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler”(Glassie). History is a source of information that people can look up to for the modern time. History can also help to solve problems which would not be possible without it. Moreover, if people look into history there were society which created law and values that lead to the modern society. For…

Videos and social media posts pour out of East Aleppo, and the world weeps. For the seven-year-old girl facing her death, for the man seeking prayers as a bomb explodes in the distance, for the activist pleading, “Save Aleppo. Save humanity.” The aerial footage of the city is apocalyptic, but it is the images of individuals grasping for hope as they face death that has truly captured and horrified the masses. We have seen this before: the figures leaping from the World Trade Center, the story of…

History is usually suggested as a continuum of similar events that occur repetitively. Machiavelli’s quote, “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past, for human events ever resemble those of the preceding times”, is exemplified by events in history and issues that still exist. There are multiple historic occurrences that can attest to Machiavelli’s thinking, specifically three will be discussed, each within a different spectrum. In order to attest to Machiavelli’s thinking, a…