[1] What do historians create with the history they account? History is a story that never ends. The events of the present in essence have already happened in the past. Historians try to make sense of the present by deconstructing the past. Only through analysis of the past can one understand the present. I remember playing cowboys and Indians as a child. I would always play the part of the cowboys, and consequently the cowboys always won. At the end of my day 's adventure I went to my parents to tell them of my conquest against the Indians. I made certain to include every detail of the battle -- from first charge to last saber stroke. History was made that day in my backyard with the green figurinesoldier on horsebackwhose defeat of the Indian nemesis forces was both courageous and honorable.…
For the most part the History surrounding "Braveheart" is accurate, but there are several significant people and events which simply do not match up historically. After watching the movie and reviewing the history behind it, it becomes clear that Hollywood felt they needed to alter several things in order to make the film more entertaining to their viewers. It is interesting to compare the depiction of the characters and events portrayed in the movie to the actual history that surrounds them.…
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Within some of the historical context that was actually included in the play, and key…
Everyday history is being made, certain things more significant than others. In today’s day and age we are able to capture proof through photo, video, and etc. What about history made in times before all that? Word of mouth, all proof was based on a person’s story that was continually passed down until it was time to be inputted into a text book. Of course with this method, a lot can be left out or even added to the original story. Sometimes so much that it begins to turn into something completely different. Essentially, history was passed down like the childhood game “telephone.” The flaws become evident when talking about the Battle of Big Horn, one of the largest military defeats in U.S. history. Much controversy surrounds…
The historical inaccuracies of Pearl Harbor were significant compared to the actual events. The movie romanticizes war and fighting in general for purposes of entertainment, where in reality the attack was violent and a gruesome experience. It was geared towards romanticizing the movie by having a love story involved then the actual war. In the movie it shows the sun high in the sky when the attack was done on Pearl Harbor but the Pearl Harbor attack took place on Sunday morning which makes this one of the most significant inaccuracies. The tables would have been turned because if the attack was taken place during the day time the U.S. military would have been more prepared for the attack. In the movie it had shown kids out side playing baseball…
It is obvious that the past relations between the United States of America and Spain have not been quite pleasant. While analyzing the previous affairs between the two nations, there was a certain mark that is undoubtedly became a historical point in the world. This mark is most certainly the beginning of the Spanish-American War. When the United States began its mission to extend its borders, the negative tension between the Cuban Forces commenced to unravel along with confrontations.…
In this picture, Robert Ariail uses historical allusion to portray the effect that pioneers had on America and Native Americans. In the art, there are British people coming toward land on a small boat while there are Native Americans hiding behind a bush saying “I say let them in… what’s the worst that could happen.” This art is an allusion because that is exactly what Native Americans thought at first when pilgrims came to the New World. They didn’t take them seriously or thought that they would bring much damage to them. Instead, they let them stay which led to the death of many Indians and many tribes fleeing from their homes. This picture also connects with the theme because when someone looks at this, they might not understand what it’s…
During the 16th and early 17th Century there were few detailed accounts of commoners’ lives in London, England leaving a gap in historical records. Such a gap was not just about the commoners, but the perspectives of the entire society, cultural norms of that era, and even business. However, the insight into London during the late 17th century through the 18th Century came from the criminal literature like the “criminal biographies, last dying speeches, Newsgate accounts and trial accounts” from Old Bailey (Emsley, Hitchcock and Shoemaker, “Publishing History”). This provided the most insightful information into the Old Bailey Session House proceedings, due to the trials being documented by reporters writing to inform the…
When a person thinks of a historian they would probably say they are a museum curator or someone who just studies the past. However, they truly do not understand what it means to be a historian. In the book The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, John Gaddis goes into explicit detail on what it takes for a historian to properly and accurately present the past to the public. There are three main elements that I found interesting in this explanation. They are the fact that the historian must use time, space, and scale. As such, we shall delve into this for further examination.…
July 9, 1776 -- Washington orders that the Declaration of Independence be read before the American army in New York -- from his personal copy of the "Dunlap Broadside."…
After watching the films Titus (1998) and Elizabeth (1998), it has come to my attention that both of these films consist of two things. These two things that stuck out to me are violence and history. I will also be touching very briefly on the religious mechanics that drive these two films. Now many great movies contain these important aspects, but it’s the way that Julie Taymor (Titus) and Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth) have used them to portray the times and above all else, provide us with great films to have in our library. I will be discussing in detail the similarities and differences of these two films with regards to the violence, history, and religious motifs behind them.…
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What is History? Is it purely stories handed down from generation to generation or is it simply the things we read about in history books? Is the history described in books today precise or has the whole truth been Throughout the course of history, there have been many events and stories that have been told and handed down from generation to generation gradually giving the current age an understanding of the history that people have lived through. History comes from people with first hand accounts of the events that took place in the past and the stories that they tell others about their experiences. As seen in Gordon Parks’ “Speaking for the Past” and Thomas R. Partsch’s “March 16-18, 1968”, history is most often than not, told from the bottom up with a bias that provokes the reader to feel certain emotions about the story or history being told.…
To you, fellow members, who have honored me by election to your presidency this year, I feel that I owe a sort of apologia pro vita mea, a statement of the beliefs and principles that have guided my teaching and writing during the thirty-eight years since my first article was published in the American Historical Review. I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. Very early in my professional career I observed a certain frustration in a historian whom I greatly admired, Henry Adams, who had spent much time and thought searching for a "law of history." So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. My creed or confession is probably no different from that of the great majority of practicing historians in the Western world.…