Introduction To Public History

Whilst I am very interested in current affairs, I also feel a deeper understanding of the past helps me to understand and appreciate present day issues. For that reason I decided to study

In History: A Very Short Introduction, Arnold weaves together various anecdotes including a 14th century murder, an epic regarding the corybantic slaughter of cats in France, the varying accounts of a Sojourner Truth speech, and many more stories to emphasize why history matters and the problems inherent in its recording. Throughout his novel, he contests the stance taken by Thucydides, a notable Greek historian. Thucydides lived from 460 BCE to 400 BCE and was famous for his work, The History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounted the conflict between Athens and Sparta. Thucydides firmly believed that history was meant to solely record the stories of politics, the state and great men — a belief that John Arnold throughly opposes. With his beliefs and narratives, he created a precedent that negatively influenced historiography for many years to come, for historians chose to disregard the lives and stories of the common man. It was this precedent that the historian Arnaldo Momigliano referred to as Thucydides’ Tower. “Arnaldo Momigliano (a modern author) remarked that having shut himself up in this tower of political history, Thucydides wanted to confine all of us there too” (34). The idea of Thucydides’ Tower itself refers to a metaphorical prison out of which historians could only see politics, war and the actions of great men; Looking out from the tower, their vision was far too narrow to see the lives and stories of the everyday man. Indeed, if Arnold wished to have a

Chapter one of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States discusses the differences between the culture and attitudes of the Europeans and the Native Americans. It further describes how the Europeans came to the New World and committed genocide against the Native Americans in order to get land and gold from them, which displayed the cruelty and greed of the European explorers coming to the Americas. However, many historians consider these actions by the European Conquistadors to be necessary in order for human progress to occur, but Zinn argues whether human progress needed all of these barbaric actions. He talks about how history has had many important details left out of many events and believes that it is important for history to be seen for all that happened. For example, Zinn writes, “To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to de-emphasize their genocide, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves- unwittingly-to justify what was done.” (Zinn) This quotation shows how Zinn emphasizes how this brutality was not a necessity but it is a choice on how it should be interpreted. Zinn also talks about Hernando Cortes’ time with the Aztec Empire. In the text, Zinn writes, “Cortes then began his march of death from town to town, using deception, turning Aztec against

it feels to feel out of place. Not just in a group of people, but in this

Select five sources. Explain how useful these sources have been in informing you in your enquiry into the main features of trench warfare on the Western Front in the First World War.

When previously thinking of how to describe myself, the word that came to mind was “ordinary.” I grew up in a small town, went to an even smaller high school, and both of my parents showered me with love. I had a charmed childhood, but I never thought there was anything extraordinary about myself. I felt as though I had the same-old story as everyone else. I had always felt pretty simple – pretty ordinary.

24.The bonus army was a group who supported the patman bill which was to have veterans be complimented for their war time, however reacted by providing food and supplies to them out of respect. But after the law was voted down, hoover told the bonus army to disband all but a thousand people did not leave. Ending the government hearing them forcefully leave. Many were injured and two people were shot at

D. it symbolized the fusion of Roman, German, and Christian elements which would make up medieval civilization in Europe.

When I was in high school, I held the upmost conviction that I, alone, was completely different from everyone else. I knew deep down that I couldn’t place

Without knowledge, we cannot improve ourselves and the world. I have learned that investigating the past, through the histories that many historians have written and left us as a legacy, is where we can find the causes of many events that occur in our present. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different perspectives on Christopher Columbus of historian Howard Zinn, as well as the impacts created by the arrival of Columbus to “The New World” in the history of the United States.

This video is about a 5th-grade social studies teacher named Miss Kelsey’s personal experience with the method of inquiry and her reason on why the inquiry method was a great way to help her students learn Canadian history. In the video, Miss Kelsey demonstrates the positive effects of historical inquiry in her 5th-grade class by describing how it not only sparked the interests of her students, but also herself and not only that but both her and her students learned something. Not mention the fact that Miss Kelsey had also helped spark the interests of her students even more by creating a scenario where they had to present the information that each of her students found in their assigned important figures to her where she will decide which

wanted to experience life as a Wilmingtonian. In the words of historian, Philip Gerard, “People

of the town you grew up in due to a severe shortage of work. The

So, last week we talked about mistletoe. This week we’ll ask the question, “What’s up with Christmas trees?” And this seems a good question. I mean, who came up with the idea of bringing the outdoors inside? Don’t we build houses to keep the outdoors outside?

Oral history that provides deep reflections of certain incidences or events analyzing relevant aspects such as the pros and cons, effects and problems.