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Charlemagne's Coronation

declare himself King, or to seem eager for the post. Instead, it seemed more pious to have Charlemagne modestly refuse the crown. ...

CSpan Historian Survey and Ranking of Ronald Reagan

In five pages this paper discusses how Reagan ranked in 10 areas delineated by the CSpan Survey of historians. There are no other...

A Comparison of Herodotus and Fischer.

316). The idea that historical research and results should be confined only to a few learned scholars, as far as Fischer is concer...

Admirability in Cicero by Plutarch

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...

Revolutionary Ludwig van Beethoven

Christian Gottlob Neefe, the Bonn court organized, mentored him, "encouraging both his playing and his composing" (Johnson, 2005)....

Judaism, Christianity, Religious Misinterpretation, and Environmental Problems

into the premier representation of Christianity, Jesus was to occupy a dual role within the religious world. He did not eschew hi...

West Misperceptions of the History of East Asia

of French historian Michel Foucalt, and makes three principal arguments. The first argument that Said presents is that Orientali...

Overview of King Philip's War

they were so vastly different in how they lived and how they saw life, with many colonists believing it was imperative that the Na...

Power Rises of Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin

and abundance" (Zagladin 262) but in reality "brought down on them terror and repression, and dragged the world into an era of blo...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

Conquest of Mexico

of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...

Hobsbawm/Age of Capital

subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

David McCullough, A Great Historian

The real question is, what kind of historian is he? II. Biography In examining the life and works of any writer, biography is ...

“Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...

What Is An Historian?

record (AHA, 2007). Historians acknowledge that they have a debt to the past to do "justice" to the views of that era and presen...

Horton & Horton/In Hope of Liberty

on history that shows how blacks of the Revolutionary War era perceived the issues pertaining to liberty that served to captivate ...

El Cid: Ramon Menéndez Pidal versus Richard Fletcher

the prolific works of critic and scholar Ramon Menendez Pidal as the definitive studies on Diaz, but more recently, an English his...

Thomas A. Bailey and the Trail of Tears

as noted above deserves some further expansion so that we know how to respond to it. When he discusses Baileys remarks, Peloso is ...

Robert Dallek/FDR & American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945

the behind the scenes confrontations between the American leaders who shaped domestic and foreign policy during this crisis period...

Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and What They Mean to the United States and the World

of the Vietnam War and Malcolm spent considerable time in Africa during the last years of his life to observe the economic hardshi...

John Hope Franklin's "The Train from Hate"

This essay is on "The Train from Hate" by John Hope Franklin, which is an autobiographical account of an childhood incident that a...

Industrialization, Taking A Historical Perspective

"factory" typically conjures in the mind of the modern reader has actually very little to do with what factories, as a whole, were...

Early Persecution Of Christians

flogged rather than killed (Acts 5:27-42). It is through the writings of early historians like Eusebius of Cesarea and Origen that...

Analysis of The Missouri Compromise

After the Civil War, slavery was over, though of course prejudice against African-Americans remains to this day. The historical i...

An Early Church History by Eusebius

the holy apostles; ... 2. to relate the many important events that are said to have occurred in the history of the church; 3. "to ...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Its Contradictions

In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...