Faith of a Historian By Samuel Eliot Morison To you‚ fellow members‚ who have honored me by election to your presidency this year‚ I feel that I owe a sort of apologia pro vita mea‚ a statement of the beliefs and principles that have guided my teaching and writing during the thirty-eight years since my first article was published in the American Historical Review. I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. Very early in my professional career I observed a certain frustration in a
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Traveling alone or traveling with others Traveling will make people to gain more experiences of their life. The movement when we are traveling from one destination to another destination‚ it will let us to experienced something that are difference from what we had done before. Sometimes‚ we can either choose to travel alone or traveling with other‚ it’s depends on our personal preference. However‚ traveling alone and traveling with others are similar in gaining the knowledge about how to interact
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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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wll break down all prejudices. I was lucky enough to arrive there for the first time in early spring. While driving in a bus from Ataturk airport to my accommodation‚ I spotted several huge‚ green parks just near enormous Bosphorus strait. Thousands of minarets‚ above the numerous mosques‚ looked absolutely stunning bathed in sunlight during that quiet afternoon. As we arrived at a very nice‚ at the same time traditional and modern hotel‚ located in the center of the city‚ we asked the receptionist
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Historian as curandera Abstract History is story we tell ourselves as Khalil Gibran Muhamad defined it ‚ or Story we tell ourselves about how past explains our present and the way story is told is shaped by contemporary needs as Aurora Levnis Morales nicely put it. Likewise it could be stated that we become stories we tell ourselves. Thus‚ history has role in construction of our identity. Given the importance of the story for us‚ could it be different story then the one we are told in mainstream
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DL_HIST 1301 30367_assign1_Arora PROJECT HISTORIAN Thinking Through the Past: “Truth About Textbooks” |Instructions: Read chapter one in the Holitz reader‚ then answer the following questions with these objectives in mind: | |This assignment requires students read effectively‚ analytically‚ and with comprehension and communicate appropriate comprehension and skill | |development using college-level writing.
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One must decide the meaning of "progressive historiography." It can mean either the history written by "progressive historians‚" or it can mean history written by historians of the Progressive era of American history and shortly after. The focus that was chosen for this paper is more in keeping with the latter interpretation‚ if for no other reason than it provides a useful compare-and-contrast "control" literature. <br><br>The caveat is this: the focus of this report is on the predominant question
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Traveling is not an easy thing to do. Running to the station‚ standing in queues‚ spending lots of money‚ one can say: struggling for existence. As Huysmans said: “the imagination could provide a more-than-adequate substitute for the vulgar reality of actual experience” . So the question is: why do people travel‚ despite all inconveniences‚ which they have to fight with? The aim of this report is to depict motives and reasons of why people travel on the basis of two references: “The Art of Travel”
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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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playing songs before the year 2000‚ every time their songs come up‚ my father always changed the station or a conversation would drown the song merely as background. I do not think it is intentional but it just so happened and they too were not a phenomenon in Malaysia. Therefore‚ coming to see the performance‚ I could not feel a special connection as how many in the audience felt‚ but‚ what I did find was the feeling of reminiscing. The Art of Time Ensemble performed the Beetle’s SGT. Pepper’s
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