Historians believe that honesty and integrity should be the main bases that form the work of all historians. Historians should try to understand the historical developments and how they connect with our society today and also the future. In the American Historical Association it talks about how practicing history means acknowledging ones debt and to the work of other historians. I believe that’s what most authors see as an issue in the presentation of history today. “Plagiarism violates the historical
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Heimat struggle in The Head Strong Historian One is not born free to completely choose one’s path. Through different bonds that come from one’s family and community‚ a connection with certain characteristics are stuck to each person. This phenomenon is commonly known as heimat. Even though this Germanic word can be associated with homeland‚ it does not have a direct translation to the English language. Vilém Flusser‚ a Czech Jewish author‚ describes how in order to be free one must detach oneself
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develop. Somewhat less harsh treaties certainly would have been good‚ on the other hand. The allied governments were under the pressure of their own public‚ which demanded the Germans to pay for it all. Naill Ferguson * More of a Revisionist historian * Treaty of Versailles was “relatively lenient” J.M. Keynes * Economist wrote widely during and after Treaty of V. * Saw the reparations as particularly damaging and argued that t affected the entire continent
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nationalist‚ and the professional. The providential school of thought in American history consisted of using God to justify man’s actions. The providential historians “viewed the story of America as an extension of the history of the Protestant Reformation.” The second school of thought listed was the rationalist. The rationalist historian emerged after the European Enlightenment made its way to America. With the arrival of the Enlightenment‚ “a new class of intellectuals‚ influenced by Newton
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the great people of society or The Great Man Theory of history. He goes on to say that "They are the makers of the world in which we live. Otto Von Bismarck belongs in this Company." The controversies surrounding his life still go on between historians today. He is portrayed as a destroyer of liberty and also as a compromiser of liberalism. Some see Bismarck as trying to preserve the old order of Europe. Bismarck worked against liberal plans for unification of Germany but stood proudly in the
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a system that reflected not the benevolence of southern slave owners‚ but their need to control and coax work out of their slaves. The revised conceptions of the master-slave relationship also spilled over into the debate of slave personality. Historians such as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese‚ Jacqueline Jones‚ and Catherine Clinton have focused on the ways in which slavery differed from men and women. Scholarship over slavery continues to grow. Many scholars believe that the ways of slavery developed and
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Name Class Name Date How Do Historians Study History? People might tend to think of a historian‚ particularly an instructor‚ as someone who has a fairly straightforward and simple profession. After all‚ history is already written. Thus‚ it should simply be a matter of just memorizing a series of facts. Of course‚ this is not the case. History as we understand it is a constantly evolving story about individuals‚ events‚ eras and cultures. In addition‚ modern historians frequently ask questions about
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If the question of who is considered one of the first historians‚ one may answer with the name Bede. Bede was an educated monk and scholar who composed many works over his time. His most famous piece‚ “A History of the English Church and People”‚ Bede wrote about “the conquest of Britain by the Anglo-Saxon tribes after the departure of the Roman” (Editor 83). This kind of piece requires historic documents‚ which was something that wasn’t as accessible back in Bede’s time like it is today. The lack
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There are many factors that can determine why a historian arrives at a certain viewpoint. These are factors not limited to: The zeitgeist in which the source was written‚ the information available to them (e.g. where the US or Soviet archives open to the historian)‚ the focus of the source‚ the historical methods employed‚ the assumptions they make‚ their political convictions and their agenda (the purpose of the source). Evaluating these different areas can help explain the various discrepancies
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Heart of Darkness: Modernism and Its Historians Author(s): Robert Wohl Reviewed work(s): Source: The Journal of Modern History‚ Vol. 74‚ No. 3 (September 2002)‚ pp. 573-621 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/345112 . Accessed: 30/09/2012 11:34 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service
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