YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Look at the Role of the Historian
Essays 121 - 150
declare himself King, or to seem eager for the post. Instead, it seemed more pious to have Charlemagne modestly refuse the crown. ...
In five pages this paper discusses how Reagan ranked in 10 areas delineated by the CSpan Survey of historians. There are no other...
316). The idea that historical research and results should be confined only to a few learned scholars, as far as Fischer is concer...
Romans feel how great a charm eloquence lends to what is good, and how invincible justice is, if it be well spoken; and that it is...
Christian Gottlob Neefe, the Bonn court organized, mentored him, "encouraging both his playing and his composing" (Johnson, 2005)....
into the premier representation of Christianity, Jesus was to occupy a dual role within the religious world. He did not eschew hi...
of French historian Michel Foucalt, and makes three principal arguments. The first argument that Said presents is that Orientali...
they were so vastly different in how they lived and how they saw life, with many colonists believing it was imperative that the Na...
and abundance" (Zagladin 262) but in reality "brought down on them terror and repression, and dragged the world into an era of blo...
social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...
subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...
navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...
that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...
The real question is, what kind of historian is he? II. Biography In examining the life and works of any writer, biography is ...
twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...
record (AHA, 2007). Historians acknowledge that they have a debt to the past to do "justice" to the views of that era and presen...
on history that shows how blacks of the Revolutionary War era perceived the issues pertaining to liberty that served to captivate ...
the prolific works of critic and scholar Ramon Menendez Pidal as the definitive studies on Diaz, but more recently, an English his...
as noted above deserves some further expansion so that we know how to respond to it. When he discusses Baileys remarks, Peloso is ...
the behind the scenes confrontations between the American leaders who shaped domestic and foreign policy during this crisis period...
of the Vietnam War and Malcolm spent considerable time in Africa during the last years of his life to observe the economic hardshi...
This essay is on "The Train from Hate" by John Hope Franklin, which is an autobiographical account of an childhood incident that a...
"factory" typically conjures in the mind of the modern reader has actually very little to do with what factories, as a whole, were...
flogged rather than killed (Acts 5:27-42). It is through the writings of early historians like Eusebius of Cesarea and Origen that...
After the Civil War, slavery was over, though of course prejudice against African-Americans remains to this day. The historical i...
the holy apostles; ... 2. to relate the many important events that are said to have occurred in the history of the church; 3. "to ...
In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...