Historians

McCullagh refutes the notion of inevitability by noting that standards exist that allow historians to cognitively avoid bias, and to do so in a manner that is not overly exhaustive. He declares that the “one important constraint upon historical descriptions is that they [simply] provide a fair account of the subject.” Naysayers at this point

Although many people assume the motivations for war are determined by a territorial protection, a number of scholars have added other motivations for understanding why war occurs, among these historians one is a conspicuous example his name is Howard Zinn. Zinn has exposed that many countries go to war in order to bring economic prosperity to their region this need for gain in turn causes many of the upper class of that region to acquire fantastic levels of wealth, many of these powerful figures

Howard Zinn is one of the few historians who purposely wrote with a bias; he ‘abandoned neutrality’ and took sides when writing about historical topics. Generally people expect historians to just state objective facts and not show any bias. In school, students commonly read books depicting Pilgrims as great people, who were peaceful towards their Indian neighbors, but they actually massacred and tried to convert them. As Winston Churchill once said, “History is written by the victors.” This statement

History is a matter of what happened. Historians, however, work hard to understand why everything happened. To do so, they must look back hundreds of years to each event and somehow answer the question, why did this happen? Of these historians, three include Frederick Jackson Turner, who believed that the western frontier movements were the cause to many events, Richard Hofstadter, who believed that small groups impacted American politics, and Charles Beard, who felt that the constitution was written

Dr. Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States might be better titled A Proletarian’s History of the United States. In the first three chapters Zinn looks at not only the history of the conquerors, rulers, and leaders; but also the history of the enslaved, the oppressed, and the led. Like any American History book covering the time period of 1492 until the early 1760’s, A People’s History tells the story of the “discovery” of America, early colonization by European

History can be defined in a number of ways. One could say history is a record of events that occurred in the past, or another person could say that history is the knowledge and facts of the past. Carl Becker’s definition is perhaps the simplest and finest definition of history. Becker defines history as “the memory of things said and done” (223). Memory is history, which is what history truly is and how it should be looked at by mankind. As long as mankind has that memory, then that memory of the

middle-class Americans, however only wealthy white men still only had access to that kind of education. This new wave of historians insisted that knowledge of history and physics were of equal importance. The final stage of American history and progression according to Couvares, was the professional stage. Professional scholars rose to prominence from 1910-1945. These historians believed that modernity, industrialization, urbanization, and class conflict had fundamentally changed society. Charles

historical writings, the method of analyzing a historical period based on the perspectives of historians to the event. What is “critical analysis” in history writing? To critically analyze an event one must read about all aspects of a historical event in order to fully understand that historical era. This is done by examining several primary source documents, as well as the perspectives of several historians. This way we are able to break down a historical time and fully understand its success and

Mental illness has continually been part of life in the United States, albeit a part of American life that is not often discussed. Insane asylums for housing the mentally ill developed later during colonial America. New scientific ideas and the continuing influence of the Enlightenment led to further usage of insane asylums, where a widely-used architectural style developed. Commonly known as Kirkbride or linear plan asylums, these asylums were popular in the mid-nineteenth century, and were massive

and the variety of approaches to studying and using historical facts. Chapter One of The Methods and Skills of History emphasizes upon the importance of history in society, while Chapter Two is centered on the nature of history and the task of the historian. According to Doing History, the study of history as a whole is an interpretation of past events based on reliable evidence. However, there can be misuse of historical facts, such as dependence on popular memory, or, how