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Historians on Political Conflicts and Sexuality

such larger societal issues also had a profound impact on more intimate sexual issues and determinants of sexual behavior and atti...

The Lives of 'Visigothic Fathers' as Explored by Historian A.T. Fear

time frame and cultural context for the student investigating this topic, Historical Background As inferred within the text, th...

African American Author, Historian, and Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois

In five pages this paper discusses how being a black man influenced the perspectives of W.E.B. Du Bois with his text The Souls of ...

Historian Cornelius Tacitus

In four pages The Annals of the Roman Empire text is considered in an assessment of any biases revealed within or lack thereof by ...

American Historian Richard Hofstadter

In nine pages this paper examines Anti Intellectualism in the United States and Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter in a considera...

Edward Hallett Carr's Essay 'The Historian and His Facts'

In five pages an overview and analysis of this famous Edward Hallett Carr essay are presented....

Historians and Conception of the Nazi Program

If historians were to analyze this particular conversation between Adolph Hitler met with Marshal Kvaternik, the leader of the Naz...

A Look at the Role of the Historian

different definitions. That is, different people see history in different ways. There is a debate over presentism where there is d...

Thucydides and his accuracy as a historian

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

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 ...

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...

Democratic Historian Alexis de Tocqueville

some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blinded ...

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...

Revolutionary Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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...

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...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

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

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...

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 ...

Rowlandson & Dances With Wolves

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...

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...

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 ...

Wiencek/On George Washington

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

“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...

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

Family Life in the American Colonies

(Demos, 2000, p. But this common kitchen tool was also "used by conjurers magicians in obscure ceremonies of fortune-telling" in t...

The Historiography of Thucydides and Herodotus

that Thucydides, along with several other original historians "simply transferred what was passing in the world around them, to th...