Historical Documents Affect Me Today

Quoted by Handler and Gable, critic Ada Louise Huxtable declares the newly constructed reproduction of Colonial Williamsburg as “too clean,” arguing that it “does not include the filth and stench that would have been commonplace.” (Source E) This sanitation of the truth completely misrepresents history, and the educational value greatly suffers. Conversely, the National Museum of the American Indian hopes to avoid this lack of judgment by dedicating itself to the “preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and Arts of Native Americans.” (Source C) The main goal of the museum is to “span all major cultural areas” (C) and educate the public about and preserve the rich history of such a vast culture. The authenticity and significance of artifacts are important to representing culture and history, and the ability of these artifacts to educate should be a key factor of the selection process.

Historians produce knowledge for us to learn from in the form of written documentation showing what people have done in the

A key strength of Waltke’s article is his use of diverse cultures, spanning over the course of history, to prove that societies in different eras with different values and systems highly regarded written records over the uncertainty of oral tradition. By using an array of cultures and evaluating their use of writing and oral tradition, Waltke seeks to rightly handle the available evidence. He displays cultures that not only prioritized written record, but also those who did have more an emphasis on oral tradition, like the Ugarits, yet still regarded written records as something of great worth. Waltke builds his credibility with readers because of his diverse use of sources and how he handles them to ultimately support his

Most events and places of historical value nowadays holds little value in our lives. We confine ourselves to our interstates and highways, following the long line of motel chains stopping for maybe two minutes to take a picture just to say we were there. We take nothing away from these sites that is of real value. We barely scratch at the surface of information and true meaning of what happened at these historical sites. Rinker Buck explains his own experience with removing himself from this cultural norm

Every decent argument is backed by evidence. In “The Naked Source,” Linda Simon argues that students should learn history by interpreting primary sources. Simon supports her argument that students should confront primary sources to better learn history by using ethos, logos, structure, and tone.

The museum believes in a pastiche and populist pathway, in which the history of all people is displayed. Its interactive viewpoint allows this museum to convey history in a way that would be more accessible to its audience. For example, patrons are given the opportunity to record their own history. However, academics, such as Keith Windschuttle, assert that the NMA is a “profound intellectual waste”. He argues that although it displays accurate history, it’s purpose of entertaining its audience detracts from its value, thus creating “waste”. Although Windschuttle’s view may be extreme, it demonstrates the considerable extent to which the tension between academic and popular historians exist.

Do you think besides literature have another ways to display history? Can historians show you the picture about the historic event instead of imagining them by yourselves? “Abina and the Important Men” is a graphic history book, so the authors not only gives readers literal record but also give images to illustrate the history. The story happened in west Africa in 1876. In story includes phenomenon of the society, and certain African cultures. Abina Mansah, Quamina Eddoo and William Meltonare most important characters in the story because they represent different hierarchies in the society and display different condition in these hierarchies.

The decades of the 50’s, 60’s 70’s 80’s and 90’s had many significant events that shaped America into the nation that it is today. The events of these decades shaped the United States into the nation that it is today consist of the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Watergate Scandal, Reaganomics, and the end of the Cold War.

Typically, I treat seemingly reputable historical analysis as fact, and only when pressed do I ponder the author’s motives and intensions. Even less often, do I question the political perceptions of the organizers of chronicled archives. The sifters, and eventual arbiters of what historical ephemera should live on. How did archives form? They are not compiled by an unemotional artificial intelligence that omnisciently records all global human action. Moreover, to address the specific example provided by Sternhell, it becomes obviously that the victors of various wars and political squabbles possess more sway in how a historical record is remembered. The Union was victorious in the American Civil War, and thus it was the leaders of the Union who got to pose the seemingly apolitical presentation of history, which was obviously political in the very nature of its construction. This information provided by Yael Sternhell, provides a concrete example of what Carr explored in The Historian and His Facts. Carr argued that there was no purely objective history, that instead, it was the historian that chooses to emphasize whatever he deems appropriate to

Recording history is very important. History tells us about how our ancestors lived, and knowing it will give you a solid foundation for discerning between right and wrong. Looking back at our history can prevent us from making the same mistakes that were made before. God even commanded us to remember the past. Mankind recorded history through books, songs, and stories that were passed on through generations, but those records can be confusing. Just reading and hearing about something doesn’t give you a clear understanding or view on what happened before. To actually see history through photos gives you a better understanding. A man who contributed to making history clearer during the Civil War is Mathew Brady.

One thing is the author could never truly understand my culture because she is not African american. She never had to go through things that almost every African American goes through on a daily basis. Throughout the article the author incorporated people's opinion of the museum who are part of the African american community. This way she presents opinion significant to me and my heritage. People who deeply rooted to the essay shared interesting insights. One woman whose story was in the article could reminisce the days of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his “I have a Dream” speech on the Washington mall. She wanted to introduce the pride and pain of African Americans. The author described the museum as a place where you can get culturally enriched because of all the things said in the writing. The author wanted to demonstrate who would benefit from the museum. Generations of people can come together and see their history together even if it very dark. This is one way the author The museum is a life changing experience. From seeing the casket of 14 year old Emmett Till who was lynched by a white men in mississippi in 1955. To seeing the slave trade routes and how millions of Africans were taken from their homeland. The museum is very deep there is even an exhibit that shows child size ankle cuffs. It is made clear before you enter the museum you will see heart wrenching things without it being

If we could we should have an individual class for that. Maybe just change what our history classes teach and have them teach us about our current documents that mean something to us directly. Of course I am not saying that America’s founding documents are not important I am just saying that if we are just going to learn the same thing over and over again every year then we may as well not be taught it in high school because by then we will have memorized it

In this paper, I will be outlining the costs and benefits of social and technological fixes, and then I will be assessing the use of social and technological fixes of air pollution through the use of automobiles.

For the History Museum paper, we took a trip to the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. It was interesting that the tour guide asked who has been there before and I was only one of three people who raised their hand. Nobody knowing I was born and raised in Philadelphia, I have been to the Penn Museum only once when I was younger. I was actually pretty excited to go again and see what has changed since I have been there.

Maybe this is expanse strung-out, but in historiology no cyclopaedia is a “presentable scholarly ascent,” at least not to the position that a logographer would quote an cyclopædia in a peep-survey divulgation. A fate of us employment encyclopedias as a starting characteristic for exploration or for fleet advertence of fundamental facts (“When was that agreement prognostic again? Ah, here it is.”) These aren’t stuff one footnotes. I have particularly found Wikipedia to a heterogeneous benediction. Entries for no-polemical topics can be considerably commendable. I emit students in my Hesperian chronicle passage to the entries for the Land Ordinances of 1785 and 1796. The item for Robert E. Lee, on the other agency, offer back and forward between upside-meridional apologia and something finisher to a kerçek historic relation of the qualifier. (Today I see that it is not too bade.) Entries for Alger Hiss and Leon Trotsky and likewise disputatious figures are digital action grounds. I would not cast a bookman to those entries for the bare-bones facts on Robert E. Lee, though I would grant students to the tale side for the entries in a historiography or digital past method.