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    DL_HIST 1301 30367_assign1_Arora PROJECT HISTORIAN Thinking Through the Past: “Truth About Textbooks” |Instructions: Read chapter one in the Holitz reader‚ then answer the following questions with these objectives in mind: | |This assignment requires students read effectively‚ analytically‚ and with comprehension and communicate appropriate comprehension and skill | |development using college-level writing.

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    I agree with the statement‚ “The removal of Native Americans from their lands by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 violated their political‚ legal‚ and human rights.” The United States’ government was selfish for themselves with the prospering of themselves; the Indians were very understanding to all the treaties the United States forced them to agree with‚ until the Indian Removal Act; and the spectators of everything that was happening made the Americans look like enemies. Andrew Jackson‚ part of

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    Thucydides is by far the most important of all early historians. He is the most reliable and trustworthy. Throughout this essay I will show how his work contributed to modern history. I will discuss the manner in which Thucydides wrote his history and the importance of it. I will also discuss branches of history in which Thucydides wrote his history such as; the war‚ politics and the plague. Thucydides (c.460-395BC) was born in Athens into what is believed to be a royal family. After proving

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    The historian and the search for truth A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous‚ methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. History‚ in its broadest sense‚ is the totality of all past events‚ although a more realistic definition would limit it to the known past. Of all the fields of serious study and literary effort

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    advisers knew it. [Emphasis added.] The author of that statement is not a revisionist; he is J. Samuel Walker‚ chief historian of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Nor is he alone in that opinion. Walker is summarizing the findings of modern specialists in his literature review in the Winter 1990 issue of Diplomatic History. Another expert review‚ by University of Illinois historian Robert Messer‚ concludes that recently discovered documents have been "devastating" to the traditional idea that

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    Historians believe that honesty and integrity should be the main bases that form the work of all historians. Historians should try to understand the historical developments and how they connect with our society today and also the future. In the American Historical Association it talks about how practicing history means acknowledging ones debt and to the work of other historians. I believe that’s what most authors see as an issue in the presentation of history today. “Plagiarism violates the historical

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    Heimat struggle in The Head Strong Historian One is not born free to completely choose one’s path. Through different bonds that come from one’s family and community‚ a connection with certain characteristics are stuck to each person. This phenomenon is commonly known as heimat. Even though this Germanic word can be associated with homeland‚ it does not have a direct translation to the English language. Vilém Flusser‚ a Czech Jewish author‚ describes how in order to be free one must detach oneself

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    develop. Somewhat less harsh treaties certainly would have been good‚ on the other hand. The allied governments were under the pressure of their own public‚ which demanded the Germans to pay for it all. Naill Ferguson * More of a Revisionist historian * Treaty of Versailles was “relatively lenient” J.M. Keynes * Economist wrote widely during and after Treaty of V. * Saw the reparations as particularly damaging and argued that t affected the entire continent

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    nationalist‚ and the professional. The providential school of thought in American history consisted of using God to justify man’s actions. The providential historians “viewed the story of America as an extension of the history of the Protestant Reformation.” The second school of thought listed was the rationalist. The rationalist historian emerged after the European Enlightenment made its way to America. With the arrival of the Enlightenment‚ “a new class of intellectuals‚ influenced by Newton

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    the great people of society or The Great Man Theory of history. He goes on to say that "They are the makers of the world in which we live. Otto Von Bismarck belongs in this Company." The controversies surrounding his life still go on between historians today. He is portrayed as a destroyer of liberty and also as a compromiser of liberalism. Some see Bismarck as trying to preserve the old order of Europe. Bismarck worked against liberal plans for unification of Germany but stood proudly in the

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