HISTORIAN AND HIS FACTS In the first chapter of "The Historian and his Facts‚" Edward Carr laid out the question of what defines history and the role of facts in writing history. Carr laid out the opposition viewpoint that facts speak for themselves and that it lay out directly how history should be written. Carr compares the writings of Acton and Sir George Clark. Acton‚ who wrote in the later Victorian age‚ wrote with a sense of awe and admiration towards history‚ while Sir George Clark seemed
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For my final assignment‚ I chose to expand on forum number five‚ which talked about Public Historians and recording popular culture. This thread features some great discussions and points mentioned in class and in the discussion board‚ which I would like to bring light to in this paper. It is not only our job as Historians/Public Historians to evaluate and interpret the world around us and change over time. Recording history has become almost effortless‚ since everything is digital‚ making a single
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Edward Gibbon the Historian Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a historical work that is more than two hundred years old‚ and yet it’s popularity continues to remain strong among the educated public. This masterpiece has been called “The greatest history that has ever been published” (Miller 1). The value of this work and its reliability have been exhaustibly questioned‚ praised and criticized. So what is it that draws people to read his work? Gibbon introduces The Decline
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Witnesses and Historians Chu Wang Professor Lipman 04/27/10 WITNESSES AND HISTORIANS Witnesses and historians are the two distinctive groups of people in recording important historical moments. Witnesses observe history by living through it. Historians observe history by gathering and analyzing witnesses ’ accounts. Yet the major difference between witnesses and historians is the knowledge of what happened afterwards. Historians know more about the aftermath‚ and this awareness changes their
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Historians often come across different evidence on the same subject. However‚ this does not necessarily mean one would be considered more “correct” than the other. History is recorded through the eyes of the historian and therefore inevitably prone to human error. In the essay “The Historian and His Facts”‚ Edward Hallet Carr presents to his readers the limitations inherent in the study of history and the relationship between the historian and his or her facts. Carr makes use of historical accounts
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When dealing with complex historical topics‚ it is common for historians to develop systems of identity to impart a historical narrative. This system is developed independently from the various groups the historian wishes to discuss. Thus‚ each system of identity is largely alien to the historical group it seeks to describe. While this may seem contradictory to a historian’s effort to impart a sense of validity to their theses‚ it is necessary as a way for the modern reader to identify with the topic
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Aralee Fajardo January 7‚ 2011 Entry #8: "The Madness of John Brown" Historians are not the only ones that can elucidate history. History is a extensive puzzle that can be solved by anyone who has an educated diploma on certain subjects. Historians are the main disposition to solve the uncertainty of history with their useful‚ quality skills of making theories to conjoin loose ends of history‚ motivation of repeated research‚ and their undying love to learn new history‚ but a psychologist can
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amnesia‚ with governments often reinventing the proverbial wheel. The book also argues that “the role of the history of education in the struggle for educational reform has been contested and denied not only by policy makers‚ but also by a number of historians of education who prefer to avoid giving excessive attention to the
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Extension History practise essay Compare and contrast Inga Clendinnen’s interpretation of the purpose of history with the views of at least two other historians you have studied. Make a judgement about the value of these viewpoints Clendinnen’s viewpoint on the purpose of history is that history without the reconstruction of mistaken convictions is not true history. Her viewpoints agree with Von Ranke and Bede and disagree with Post Modernism and more closely E.H Carr. Clendinnen believes
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Rather than simply explain how Marie Antoinette was the victim of pornographic pamphlets‚ she does precisely what Ranke believed historians should not do: judge the past and challenge previous interpretation as to why the queen was subjected to this type of cruelty. Hunt argues‚ “The queen…was the emblem (and sacrificial victim) of the feared disintegration of gender boundaries that
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