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Jesse Lemisch and History from the Bottom Up - Marcus Rediker

We would not find the miners that day, but we had managed to make other connections and to learn a great deal about the popular ferment that gripped Russia ...

Digital History and Argument

While arguments have been made in digital collections and digital public his- tory, the incorporation of this work into historiographic ...

Eric Foner: The Significance of Reconstruction in American History

Professor Eric Foner has been an inspiration to me almost my entire career. I only just now remembered when it was we met. One of the most important subjects in ...

The Counterfactual Show: Reimagining History, With Stephen Kotkin

Historians differ over the need to explore “counterfactuals”—the study of scenarios that never happened—and what they can tell us about ...

Recentering the United States in the Historiography of American ...

Nevertheless, in this article we argue that the turn to international and transnational history has led historians, at least implicitly, to ...

German Historians versus Goldhagen | Yad Vashem Studies, Vol. 26

This extrapolation, in turn, enables him to argue that they would have ... It appears that the only distinction that would have been denied to Goldhagen in ...

Omitted History | Arts & Sciences - Washington University in St. Louis

Your book takes on the subject of black criminality, which has not been extensively covered. ... In the decades after his report many liberal historians have ...

The 1619 Project still has historians fighting. - Slate Magazine

It may be no surprise that with dire issues of academic freedom and censorship at stake, disputes within the history profession have grown testy ...

101 Introduction, Theatre and History Classical Drama and Theatre

"History" derives from an ancient Greek word, historia, which Herodotus, the "Father of History" as he has been dubbed, applied to his study of the events ...

History 300: A Guide to Research: Historiography - OWHL Guides

A historiography traces how scholars' understanding of historical events has evolved and how scholars are in conversation with each other, both ...

History of Veterans Day

However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and ...

How To Write a Good History Essay

Middle paragraphs are the place for the real substance of an essay, and you neglect this at your peril. Final Paragraph. If you've been arguing a case in the ...

Bringing up past arguments: the history trap | Remainly

It refers to when couples tenaciously argue and fight about their perception of truth. Both partners believe that their version of events is the objective ...

Why is there no “Progress” in Philosophy of History?

As long as we have no such definition (and of which we can only hope that it is well chosen) we can go on talking about historical texts till ...

What is Holocaust Denial? - Museum of Tolerance

Not a single document has been found with Hitler's signature ordering the extermination of the Jews. A 12. This is true. Hitler was not about to repeat the ...

The Possibilities of History - PhilArchive

the arguments he offers against anything more than a marginal role for ... What Might Have Been: Imaginary History from Twelve Leading Historians.

Full article: The end of history

... have been counterfactually possible. The fact that some good things have come from engaging with history does not disconfirm the arguments of this paper. 3 ...

The debate on the origins of the First World War - The Open University

Most historians remained unconvinced that war had been decided upon ... Historians have returned to the arguments of the interwar years ...

How History Gets Things Wrong - MIT Press

Stories historians tell, Rosenberg continues, are not only wrong but harmful. Israel and Palestine, for example, have dueling narratives of dispossession that ...

A History of Arguments - The School of Life

When One Partner Feels Controlled; And the Other Feels Abandoned. Every day the same argument unfolds, perhaps four or five million times, in different places ...