HISTORIAN AND HIS FACTS In the first chapter of "The Historian and his Facts‚" Edward Carr laid out the question of what defines history and the role of facts in writing history. Carr laid out the opposition viewpoint that facts speak for themselves and that it lay out directly how history should be written. Carr compares the writings of Acton and Sir George Clark. Acton‚ who wrote in the later Victorian age‚ wrote with a sense of awe and admiration towards history‚ while Sir George Clark seemed
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For my final assignment‚ I chose to expand on forum number five‚ which talked about Public Historians and recording popular culture. This thread features some great discussions and points mentioned in class and in the discussion board‚ which I would like to bring light to in this paper. It is not only our job as Historians/Public Historians to evaluate and interpret the world around us and change over time. Recording history has become almost effortless‚ since everything is digital‚ making a single
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Albert Speer 1. Born in March 19th 1905‚ and the middle child of three sons‚ you could say Albert Speer had a life of a movie star. Having a father who was a successful architect in Mannheim‚ and a mother who came from a wealthy family you would say that the Speer family was more than well off. The Speer family had their own cook‚ kitchen maid‚ chamber maid‚ butler‚ chauffer‚ nanny and governess; Albert Speer was the upper class instead of the upper-middle which he classified himself into.
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Albert Speer. The German Nazi leader Albert Speer‚ born March 19th 1905‚ died Sept. 2nd 1981‚ directed Germany’s war production‚ using slave labor‚ during World War II. Speer‚ who joined the National Socialist party in 1931‚ became Adolf Hitler’s architect‚ designing the Nuremberg stadium and other Nazi monuments. He was made minister of armaments in 1942 and expanded his planning responsibilities over most of Germany’s wartime industry in 1943. In 1946 he was sentenced to 20 years in Spandau prison
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Albert Speer was born in 1905 in Manheim‚ Germany. He was born into an affluent‚ upper-middle class family‚ being the 2nd of 3 boys. As a result of a distant and emotionless father and a detached mother‚ Speer’s childhood saw him being emotionally neglected. Speer had a big interest in mathematics but his father had other plans and he persuaded Speer to pursue a career in architecture like himself and his father before him. So Speer attended the Berlin Institute of technology where he completed
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Edward Gibbon the Historian Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a historical work that is more than two hundred years old‚ and yet it’s popularity continues to remain strong among the educated public. This masterpiece has been called “The greatest history that has ever been published” (Miller 1). The value of this work and its reliability have been exhaustibly questioned‚ praised and criticized. So what is it that draws people to read his work? Gibbon introduces The Decline
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“Speer was an apolitical technocrat” There have been historical arguments over the idea of Albert Speer being an apolitical technocrat in regards to his career. Speer wasn’t an apolitical technocrat due to the use of slave labour for the production of armament‚ his visits to concentration camps such as Mauthausen camp and the horrific conditions he saw at the Dora missile factory‚ his knowledge of Himmler’s speech at Posen also his defence at the Nuremburg trials in 1945. Criticism of Speer’s
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Albert Speer was an intelligent‚ affluent and well-educated man‚ in many ways he was an atypical Nazi. Albert Speer claimed to be apolitical as a young man; however he himself like many others‚ were converted to the Nazi Party after attending a rally and hearing Adolf Hitler speak. The following essay will outline Albert Speer’s rise to prominence within the Nazi Party. The second of three sons to Albert Friedrich Speer and Lusie Mathilde Wilhelmine Hommel‚ Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was
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knowledge and understanding of historical features and issues‚ using appropriate and well-structured written and oral forms (NSW Board of Studies Stage 6 Modern History Syllabus 2004) Description of task: Twentieth Century personality – Albert Speer * Research and present a 15-20 minute powerpoint presentation on the following topic: ‘History is about winners.’ How accurate is this statement in relation to the personality you have studied? * Include annotations for TWO sources within
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Witnesses and Historians Chu Wang Professor Lipman 04/27/10 WITNESSES AND HISTORIANS Witnesses and historians are the two distinctive groups of people in recording important historical moments. Witnesses observe history by living through it. Historians observe history by gathering and analyzing witnesses ’ accounts. Yet the major difference between witnesses and historians is the knowledge of what happened afterwards. Historians know more about the aftermath‚ and this awareness changes their
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