John Fea attempts to answer the question posed in the title of his book, “Why Study History?” He answers this question in eight chapters that talk about the different aspects of history. In chapter one, Fea talks about the role of historians as “revisionists.” Though history can be revealed through simple facts, it is meaningless without a story. Historians try to identify the story behind the facts by following the five C’s: change, context, causality, contingency, and complexity.…
Rhetorical Analysis of "The End of Men" Hanna Rosin is an American author and writer who has written "The End of Men", an article that was posted on "the Atlantic" in 2010. The article mainly focuses on the emergence of women as an authority in the American society. This reality aware the audience, or the American citizens and other workers around the world, how the end of men may happen in the near future and the rise of women should not be neglected. The author uses historical records and statistical data as evidences, in order to identify her view towards this social trend. First, the author uses a historical record as an evidence to convince the audience of her idea.…
The article is based on Christian story. Dan Smail is a professor of history at Harvard University argues that historians have failures to acknowledge a revolution which we understand in the short time. The bottom occurred in the middle of nineteenth century, geological and biological evidences for evolution of human beings confided to a community in long chronology. Historians have not abandoned chronological and geographical grip of sacred history. The author is not expecting to suggest fixing textbooks, general histories, and lectures.…
Modern being from a relatively recent point in time where the historian can look back and see the events that unfolded in the remote past. Therefore, Butterfield believes that historians should try to understand history simply by facts and not included their own preconceptions. To support his argument Butterfield uses two examples of how the Whig interpretation of history is biased. The first example is the modern view of Mary Tudor.…
Welcome to the Honors World History A Independent Research Portfolio (IRP). In this project you will compare and contrast two of the societies you have studied. You will analyze the similarities and differences between the two societies in terms of one of the following categories: Social, Political, Religious, Intellectual, Technological, or Economic history. (These categories are easy to remember with the acronym SPRITE.)…
In History “In History”, by Jamaica Kincaid, weaves together the stories of Christopher Columbus, George Clifford, and Carl Linnaeus so that the reader may understand why the author is questioning her own history and those who are like her. Kincaid questions us, “What is History? Is it a Theory? Is it an Ideal” She answers these questions through the stories of these three men as they come across and label foreign people, lands, or plants. Kincaid implies that the act of identifying and labeling unfamiliar with familiar terms are taken from these men 's subjective lives.…
In his speech, “Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are,” historian David McCullough demonstrates that it is important to learn and understand history because of its influence on present-day society. McCullough emphasizes that past generations were inexperienced and imperfect, but their improvisational character shaped destiny. Additionally, McCullough mentions the “hubris of the past”; everything that people are doing now, having now, and thinking now is the best it has ever been. Finally, McCullough stresses that today’s citizens cannot understand the decisions made throughout time without learning history to recognize and comprehend the differences between past and present-day attitudes.…
No matter what situation in the past there will always be bias including key events in history. So not every specific event in history is told perfectly without humans interfering by downing another group or by making themselves look more favorable in the end. So in any historical development including religious faiths one should always judge the standards of that particular time period. A primary example for bias in history would be the day Cristopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.…
Storylines Against The Truth “False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness,” Charles Darwin once said. This quote highlights the importance of learning anything in a proper manner and how false facts have no foundation and are not necessary. Darwin expresses how learning should be done through hard and true facts and not by facts that are bended. Just like how informational text is better for history as it is more factual than literature. Showing that learning history through literature differs from learning history through informational text because of the difference…
The debate between E.H. Carr and G.R. Elton signifies the conflict between the “Old School” of historical studies and the Revisionist model. Carr proposes that there exists within historical studies the need for interpretation, and that there is no such thing as a universalized “truth” or “fact”. This is evocative of the Postmodernist phenomenon to critique and rethink approaches to history, which I will discuss later in this paper. Elton, on the other hand, emphasizes the universal “truth” within historical studies. He insists that there is no such thing as “subjectivity”, and all facts within historical sources are indeed just that – facts.…
In fact, while making a reputation about someone, we must be objective by not engaging our feelings and opinions and act like detectives, examining people’s motivations and assumptions while describing others, we must not judge anyone; therefore, we should also suspect our own motives. That is how historian must work to avoid being judgmental and subjective,…
This is a summary of “Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination” an essay by Hayden White in “Tropics of Discourse Essays in Cultural Criticism”. In this essay, White begins by addressing the difficulties historians may have in reporting history because of the inherent bias or lack of expertise the historian brings in a particular field of study in order to distinguish the significance of the events. A good historian, as stated by White, consistently reminds us that history is always an incomplete record and the events are ever changing as new information is considered.…
Pg. 1). The skills learned through social studies help future citizens understand other cultures and perspectives they may encounter. When deciphering information in the newspaper Shanahan suggests we should “engage in disciplinary reading” which requires “specific instruction” which only Social Studies teachers are “primed to provide” (Ibid). Shanahan offers strategies to accommodate different learners to thinking like a historian. Historiography or what helps historians do Shanahan defines as “an interpretive field that relies on evidence gathered and analyzed after an event has happened” is useful for not just historians to understand the world around them independently through the help of a teacher is…
Even though I think that history is worthless and just a waste of my time, I know that I can learn from my mistakes that I have made in my own record of history to make sure that my future does not result in with the same mistakes. If individuals diminish the value of knowledge, then that means that every single case study, primary and secondary sources, and other research that have been established are all false because the people who wrote them must have considered that something was pointless to include in their research when it could have been the key point to turn the entire research upside down. Therefore, each individual, who is the basis for diminishing the value of knowledge, is not capable of determining which piece of knowledge should be diminished in value because it limits the individual’s intellect. As a result, the knowledge not applied is not diminished in value, instead it remains in its initial position as…
Voltaire once said: “History is a lie that most people agree upon.” In order to understand history, historians use a method called “historical thinking.” Historians don’t just look at evidence and learn the facts. Rather, historical thinking is asking so what? Why are these pieces of information important?…