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Historians Phillips and Woodson and Slave History Recording

documents of black history and was considered to be a prolific author of scholarly works as well as popular books (2002). He woul...

Historian and Journalist George Washington Williams

finally relented and approved him for combat (Franklin, 1977). He received a serious injury during the war and received an honora...

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...

Historian Philip Scranton

This research/essay paper focuses on Philip Scranton, renowned historian and professor who is associated with Rutgers University. ...

Thucydides and his accuracy as a historian

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Wiencek/On George Washington

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

Revolutionary Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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...

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...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

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

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...

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...

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...

Pentateuch or the Torah and Moses

Wrote the Pentateuch - The Five Books of Moses, 2003). This would have provided Moses approximately 40 years to complete these wr...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...