Oral History At Los Alamos

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.

In 1836 a war broke out between Texas and Mexico. Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna started the Alamo. He became president in 1833. The war lasted 13 days. Soon the Texans would be free.

This item focuses less on finding the historical truth events that occurred during the battle at the Alamo and more on how popular understandings of this battle have influenced, evolved, and clouded daily social/cultural relations between Texans and Mexicans. This item proved quite useful in providing a source grounded in exquisite research and analysis that looks at how society was transformed not only from the battle for the Alamo, but also the understandings, myths, and legends that resulted from the battle. One weakness of this piece is its complexity. Although I still gained valuable information from this piece,

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

The battle of the Alamo is forever in the history books for which the Mexican army try’s to reclaim Texas territory which is a province of Mexico. This war was fought for the independence of Texas from Mexico and a battle in which everyone at the Alamo dies. The battle of the Alamo in 1836 starts off with two men, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Sam Houston and 13 days plus a day which changed the course of history.

The Spanish originally built the Alamo in the 18th century. The church was actually never completed and lacked a roof when the famous war occurred in 1836. Before the famous war “The Alamo” was officially founded in 1716 and called “San Antonio de Valero Mission” The purpose of the mission was Christianizing and educating the Indians. It was the first out of five missions in the San Antonio area. The Alamo then later became a fortress. A quote from one of the bricks located outside the Alamo said, “According to some historians the name The Alamo was derived from a grove of cottonwood tress growing on the banks of the acequia, Alamo being the Spanish word for cottonwood”. The mission was the key to defending Texas from the Mexican general Santa

The Alamo has many true and false myths, the question is whose are the most accurate? Phillip Thomas Tucker’s Exodus from the Alamo:The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth may be on the top of the list for many reader’s. Tucker’s point isn’t to persuade readers to change what they believe, however it is to provide them with supported information. In this work, many may be in disbelief or they can be open to knew facts. This book can be considered higher in the academic research world. Phillip Tucker’s view of the Alamo may change any readers view.

This article articulates the changes occurring at the Alamo memorial site as it transitions from an “Anglo-centric” representation of the battle to a more inclusive and accurate representation of the Alamo. This item proves useful in drawing together the issues of race brought up in my others sources and giving evidence that points toward actual change in cultural understandings of the Alamo. The author of this article cites limitations such as having limited time at the Alamo memorial and identifying that he only had the chance to meet with a selected amount of tour guides. This article

“Working in the Archives: Practical Research Methods for Rhetoric and Composition” is a comprehensive guide for aspiring scholars to navigate research. In chapter --, Lyenee Lewis Gaillet addresses the need to instruct students how to use the research archives and recognize the philosophical assumptions that lie in the worldview of the researcher. Gaillet gives precautions concerning the interpretation of facts, which provoked reflections of my experience processessing artifacts. I took an internship opportunity in a small for-profit museum in Midway, Georgia, a rural town haunted with deep colonial and Civil War history. My primary task was to transcribe unprocessed documents from the museum’s archives.

When I first met with my mentor to discuss the projects that I would be working on during my volunteer hours with the historical society, I was disappointed to hear that I would be helping the organization complete their oral history project. After my mentor told me that I would assist in the conducting of oral histories, the first thought that came to me was, “This is going to be boring.” However, I have come to appreciate the historical interviews that I have completed, so far. This surprising element about my professional experience has taught me to value the stories and experiences of those that experienced history. While completing the oral history project, I believe that the assignment has given me a personal connection to America’s past during the World War II era. I

When humanity commits atrocious acts, it is the job of the survivors to ensure that these events are remembered and the victims honored. The construction of memory through various methods of remembrance – whether it be memoirs, films or museums – is a delicate art as perceptions can be easily skewed. A biased perspective has the capacity to completely alter the way an event is viewed. The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh about the Vietnam War for example is more propaganda than history and dishonors the memory of the brutal time. Likewise, when constructing the memory of the Cambodian Genocide, one must strive to portray an honest representation and approach it from many sides. Only by receiving a story from various sources can such an important

To some extent a historian knowledge on an event rely on some of the ways of knowing. For example, when I was doing the assignment where we had to find different eye witnesses to an event some of the documents found relied on the ways of knowing. I did the assassination of JFK and when reading different accounts of what happened some used their memory and sense perception. One of the witnesses heard the gunshots from the west side of the building another witness saw one of the bullets hit Kennedy. The thing is when sense perception comes into play it may distort your memory. An example of distortion of your memory is if you participated in any of the wars we’ve had over time. Some of the soldiers seen and heard things no other human has ever seen or heard before so when they come back from war they have post-traumatic stress disorder and they can’t help but remember things that happen but is their memory distorted in a way? What you envision is probably worse or not even that bad compared to what it was before.

The museum has roughly thirteen points of interest (exhibits); starting with a timeline of the atomic age and ending with a gallery of “today and tomorrow”. The museum indicates the weapons and type of tests which were developed and conducted throughout the course of our history. Furthermore, the museum goes about explaining the innovators and inventors of nuclear weapons, as well as vast visual representation and audio of abundant information about the nuclear age and its implications to society. Aside from what is inside the main area of the museum we have an area which has nuclear testing archives, this can symbolize and represent another notion which the museum tries to impose on a viewer. When you walk in the first hall of the exhibit they have a sign which indicates this: “Why nuclear weapons: A fundamental government

Everyone has a different background to their early lives. We all have went through events that other people have never even thought about going through whether it being a positive or negative circumstance. However, we all have went through the same historical timeline. By this I mean that people living through the same decades have went through the same historical events such as with wars, precedencies, and all the signings between countries throughout the world. As I thought about who I wanted to interview for my history report, I concluded that I wanted to learn more about my mom when she was the same age as me. My interviewee that I chose was my mom, Lora Phelps, as she lived through the late 1980’s between the ages of 18-20. I wanted

A museum is a great way to preserve items and history for the future generations to learn and gain knowledge of the past. Similarly, on my visit with the honor’s class to the National World War 1 Museum and Memorial at Kansas City, I gained a valuable knowledge about the World War 1. The overall message that the museum convey about the Great War was to remember and appreciate the soldiers, men and women who served in World War 1. There was so many visual images all around the Museum that gave a better mind picture of how it was during the war. For example, the scenes of life size trenches and crater, pictures during the war, different types of clothing each country wore, Reflection room with World War 1-era music, etc. Overall, the museum is a great education tool of World War 1.