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Internet Historiography, 2007.
This paper examines Internet websites on the topic of the Vietnam war.
1,543 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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The paper analyzes several websites including Vietnampix.com, The History Place, Vietnamwar.com., Wikipedia.org and PBS.org. The paper looks at the historical reliability and quality of these sites. The paper concludes that the Internet has proven useful on many levels for establishing historiography.
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"The Vietnam War was a seminal moment in U.S. history and provides an emotional backdrop for the U.S.' current dilemma in Iraq. Many veterans of the Vietnam War still suffer from its effects and most Americans are aware of the war's deep impact on that society. Researching the Vietnam War seems to be a topic that is well suited for internet based research as there are a plethora of sites devoted to the subject. The unique aspect of this topic vis-a-vis the internet and historiography is that the various websites consulted seem to run the gamut from the personal experience or memoir type of historical account to the clearly academic and all points in between. Vietnampix.com offered an oddly appropriate pictorial account of the Vietnam War which was, after all, the first major conflict brought into living rooms worldwide through the auspices of television and on ground photographers. Sites such as Wikipedia.org present a highly academic format regarding the war; its causes and its outcome. Yet, the accuracy, detail, and historical integrity of these sites and others, remains in question although the overall historical account that can be assembled from the collective whole is strong."
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Historiography, 2002.
An overview of historiography and the different methodologies for writing about history over time.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 97.95
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This paper is a discussion of historiography, and the methodologies involved in writing about history. The author of this paper considers the uses of different methodologies for writing about history prior to the 20th century, and the changes that influenced these methods during the 20th century. Marxism is regarded as a significant influence in changing the methodologies of historiography in the 20th century.
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Women in Pre-State Israel and Israeli Historiography, 2003.
Examines the role of women in the Zionist movement until the creation of Israel.
3,594 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 100.95
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This paper describes and analyzes the role of women in the Zionist movement from the late 1800s until the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, using appropriate historiography and primary sources. It emphasizes the ideological bias inherent in the Zionist history of the time. It also incorporates feminist revisionist historiography.
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"Many Europeans came to pre-state Israel with high expectations of equality. Among their most ambitious goals was the elimination of gender inequalities, a purpose that never was achieved fully. The role women played in the creation of the modern state of Israel was hugely important and has not received a proportionate amount of respect or analysis in comparison with that of men from historians and society in general. Despite the noteworthy idealism of the Zionist movement, the gender inequalities of the European Diaspora were transformed and reinstituted during the creation of Israel."
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Evaluation of Changes in the Methodology of Historiography, 2001.
An analysis of the works of major historians from Ancient, Medieval and Modern ages and how they contributed to changes in how history is recorded.
1,147 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 39.95
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The paper examines the way in which history is recorded and how that changed through the Ancient, Medieval and Modern ages. Examples of several prominent historians are given for each age focusing on how their work is significant.
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"Recording of noteworthy entities, personalities and specific events have occurred since before the advent of written record. Most scholars agree that prehistoric men employed an oral tradition as a means of educating successive generations. These early interpretations often encompassed primitive concepts of creationism and the purpose of man on earth. As groups evolved into agriculturally based societies, larger numbers of inhabitants could be sustained. Population growth and subsequent diversification of trade resulted in the need for basic record keeping and the development of written language. However, the remains of ancient civilizations reveal that much more was observed throughout daily life than simple record keeping."
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Historiography - Oral History, 2002.
This paper describes the role of oral sources in accurately recording history.
780 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 4 sources, $ 27.95
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The paper begins with a comprehensive definition of oral history (archival tapes). It looks at the importance of interview techniques and of a knowledge of the era in question. The establishment of the credibility of the source is dealt with, as is the investigation of personal biases. The verification of the course of events is raised and the place and use of oral history records amongst other historical sources is discussed.
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"Recording history with accuracy is a task and responsibility that has daunted man forever. Too often, history committed to text is the product of biases, hearsay and cultural mythology. The outcome is a canon of ideals and impressions based on a potentially convoluted version of the past. These discrepancies make it difficult to appreciate history as anything more than folk legend. Using oral histories to convey ideas and information is particularly useful in avoiding many of these snares."
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Historiography, 2002.
Explores some of the reasons why many students have no interest in learning history and why many Americans have such poor knowledge of history.
1,209 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper reviews "Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past? by Sam Wineburg to help explain why the subject of history is so boring to most students. It discusses Wineburg's main point, which suggests that history is taught in such an uninteresting manner because teachers have not been trained to teach it properly and concludes with a brief summary of the basic concepts in the book.
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"When someone mentions a historical fact, we more or less accept it as just that-a fact, without ever questioning the authenticity of the source, analysis and interpretation process applied to it and the accuracy of the conclusion. We assume that since a historian wrote it down carefully after thorough research in a published book, it must be correct and should not be questioned. But do we have to blame ourselves of our uncurious minds. Sam Wineburg thinks not. He believes that it is not our minds that are just too uninterested in history, but actually the way historical facts are transferred to us that completely kill our desire to question them. In other words, he blamed the history teaching methods applied in schools and colleges for our absolute lack of interest in history and the fact that most Americans posses little knowledge of historical past."
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Historiography of the American Revolution, 2002.
A look at how the history of the American Revolution can be written from a wide variety of points of view and using a variety of methodologies.
3,448 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 97.95
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This paper examines how history is written by human beings with their own interests, prejudices, and ideas, and how they often utilize one particular methodology in developing their historical narrative. It discusses how historians may write about the same events, and yet develop different theories to explain these events, with those theories based on the methodology they are using. The facts of the American Revolution are well-known, at least in general outline form, while specific events associated with the American Revolution may still be controversial and require considerable investigation. It shows how an examination of a number of histories of the American Revolution and its period suggests many of the methodologies that have been used and the arguments they may have generated with other historians using other methods.
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Introduction
The Stamp Act
Economic Analysis
Radicalism
A Different View
Conclusion
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"Charles A. Beard in various works offers an economic interpretation of the American Revolution and of the events leading up to it. In his earliest writings, beard placed a Marxian stress on economic factors in the society of the colonial era. He also echoed some of Marx's ideas on factions, in contrast to the view taken by James Madison. Madison looked upon factions as based on traits inherent in man's nature and hence permanent, but Marx took the view that classes were not based on inherent traits of human nature as such but were instead a function of environment. This would also mean they were temporary and subject to eventual elimination from human society."
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Medieval Historiography Since 1965, 1993.
An assessment of revisionism in studying the Middle Ages including modernism compared to other eras, the role of science and reason, ethnocentrism, spirituality, sexual mores, society and politics and art.
3,600 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 11 sources, $ 127.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine medieval historiography generated since 1965, to explore whether and to what extent subsequent historical interpretation of the medieval period has continued earlier lines of thought. The plan of the research will be to set forth the principal outlines of development that motivated modern historiography as discussed by Norman Cantor, and then to deal with the extent to and reasons for which significant changes in interpretation and focus of interest in medieval subjects have occurred.
When Norman F. Cantor wrote Reinventing the Middle Ages in 1991, a category of revolution had been going on in the humanities disciplines in general and interpretation of the medieval period in particular, for a couple of decades. Cantor limits his own study to the formative and institutionalizing..."
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Historiography and Military History, 2002.
An examination of military history as a genre and as a part of accepted historiographical categories.
2,920 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 86.95
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This paper examines the idea of justification for the notion that military history may in fact be a genre of the discipline of history in its own right. The author finds that there is certainly a lexicon of expressions, terminology and acronyms unique to its study and writing. He sees that military history is unique on many levels, and there are some curious aspects and juxtapositions within the genre that seem to defy the rules of historical scholarship that are applied elsewhere within the history discipline. It is a genre that seems to cross historiographical boundaries and be bound only to its own set of rules and regulations.
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"There is also some level of expected knowledge in much of it, for instance a given familiarity of the grand naval strategy ideas of Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sir Julian Corbett in works of naval history. Overall it also seems expected that one will have read and digested Von Clausewitz (and to have had curiosity to reach back further and read Jomini) as a prelude to any military history written after the 1850s. There certainly seems to be some higher levels of ?given? knowledge than in other sub-disciplines of history. There is also perhaps another perception - that much of what is written as military history is simply categorising under accepted and rigid categories of the genre. A perception that analysis only goes as deep as the last great analysis of a particular topic. Yet that may also be true of many other forms of writing history, genres of history and, indeed other disciplines as well. It is perhaps because military activities are some of the most meticulously documented events that are at the same time bound up in human contradiction that makes this so."
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Oral History and Historiography, 2008.
A research study that provides insight as to the development of the oral history of the September 11, 2001 bombings.
3,100 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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Academic perspectives on how we view oral history changed drastically after the advent of recording devices, the television, and movie cameras. It is much easier to reconstruct history accurately using pictures, rather than line drawings or descriptions. This research explores the hypothesis that oral history needs to be given greater historical credibility than it currently receives. The paper stresses the value of oral history as a key to getting the "big picture" surrounding an event. The literature review for this study examines journal articles that relate the events of September 11, 2001 from a number of political and social perspectives. The paper explains that its purpose is not to draw a consensus of the events, but rather to examine the effects of attitude and perspective on what will become the eventual "oral history" of this period in time.
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Introduction
Thesis
Literature Review
Analysis
Conclusion
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"The inclusion or omission of personal accounts into the historical record depends on the type of work that one wishes to produce. It is certainly easy to argue against their inclusion if one if looking for indisputable accuracy. However, this level of certainty of events is a fallacy from an academic perspective. Secondary historical accounts are often the "average" of the information that is available regarding a certain event. However, this does not necessarily make it accurate. History is influenced by many sociological, political and psychological forces surrounding it."
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Historiography of the Bible, 2005.
A discussion of the Old Testament books, Deuteronomy, Samuel and Kings and how they relate the problematic issue of a monarchy.
2,620 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 78.95
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This paper summarizes and describes the focus of the three Old Testament books, Deuteronomy, Samuel and Kings, and explains how these books are about why a monarchy was considered unacceptable to the people of Israel and how this negative association had a lot to do with the concept of obedience and disobedience to God.
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"The obedience and disobedience of the nation is expressed by means of the nation as a single entity in the book of Deuteronomy. This book is also the link between the history related in Genesis and Exodus, and the events in the Promised Land related in later books. This is where the nation of Israel receives the laws ordained for the nation as a whole. The emphasis is also on communal life and worship, and there is no barrier between God and his people, except the sin committed by the nation as a whole."
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Herodotus and Greek Historiography, 2008.
A discussion of historical record and the ancient Greek historiographer Herodotus.
1,015 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper takes a look at the origin of history as a form of writing and a discipline beginning with the Greeks. The paper points out that, before the first Greek historical writers, stories of great battles and historical events were certainly told, often in fanciful form, in the historical epics attributed to Homer. History was told as part of an oral tradition, not written down until long after the epic poems were shaped and told by the poet and those who followed him. The paper focuses particularly on Herodotus, considered to be one of the first to record western history in writing. The paper concludes by asserting that his writings had much influence on his successors.
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"Herodotus has been called the father of history, and Thucydides would follow his lead. In the Greek world into which Herodotus was born, prose writing was becoming more and more common for technical works on such subjects as philosophy, law and politics, and science and technology. The Greeks were interested in their past, but what passed for history was really a stock of myths and legends which were thought to be true. The interest was not historical in the sense we use the term, as an inquiry into the facts of such events as the Trojan War or any other occurrence or period. It was something quite different from that, a form of Hellenic or regional consciousness and pride and a search for community solidarity. The past could reinforce these social elements, and the old tales could in fact be revised when needed by new historical developments or political and social changes."
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Ferdinand Magellan and Circumnavigation, 2004.
Review of Martin Torodas's work about Ferdinand Magellan, "Magellan Historiography".
762 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 27.95
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This paper discusses the analytic methods used by Torodas in his work on Magellan. The paper points out that the scarcity of literature on the historiography of Magellan presents a problem for Torodas, which he confronts through historical, textual, and meta-analysis of available information. Through these methods, the paper asserts, Torodas assesses conflicts and parallelisms regarding the circumnavigation activities and life of Magellan and, consequently, is able to confront the primary issue in his article, which is to determine Magellan historiography despite its scarcity. The paper concludes by suggesting that Torados's study significantly contributes to the techniques and methods that historians must have to ensure that historiographies are conducted systematically and with rigor.
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"The Age of Discovery that emerged in the 15th-16th centuries in Europe, led by Spain and Portugal, was marked and characterized by the prevalence of sea navigations to discover new lands or ?primitive? societies. These lands and societies were also potential colonies, wherein their territories could be expanded and resources exploited for the economic benefit of European countries. Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese-born Spanish explorer and navigator, played a significant role during this age, mainly because of contributions in establishing Spanish colonies in the islands of the Pacific. However, historiography on Magellan remains scarce despite his contributions and numerous journeys around the world. Torodas confronts this issue by discussing and analyzing related works of literature pertaining to not only the accomplishments and activities of Magellan as navigator and explorer, but also as the first individual to prove (empirically) that the earth is round, giving prestige to European navigation missions."
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Book Review, 2003.
A discussion on history and historiography.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper reviews Alfred Young's "The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution." It focuses on the ways in which memories over time are collected, compared, winnowed and woven in history as an example of historiography. The paper contends that in seeking to understand how particular events that occurred during the American Revolution became ongoing touchstones the sense of who Americans are as a people, Young is writing both history and historiography.
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Western Expansion, 2002.
A historiography of American expansion to the West, using several sources.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 115.95
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This paper will discuss the books "The Frontier in American History" by Frederick Jackson Turner, "Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush" by Susan Lee Johnson, "The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West" by Patricia Limerick and "White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture" by Neil Foley. By assessing a historiography, we can see how these historians present different perspectives on historical writing in American expansionism to the West.
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