For this assignment, I started by thinking about the things that interest me that are conventionally known histories. One thing that has always peeked my interests has been World War 2 and the mass exodus of people, specifically Jews, from Germany before the war. The people migrated all over the world, some went to England and…
09. Types of historiography
09. Types of historiography
Historiography in WWI’s Diplomatic (and a bit of Economic) History
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In “Remembering the forgotten war: America historiography on World War I,” Jennifer D. Keene describes different perspectives on the diplomatic and economic history of World War One, specifically focusing on the main reasons the US joined the war, what America’s goals were, and why the the Versailles Peace Treaty failed. After giving a brief historical …
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Globalize Imperialism?
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Globalization. As an American, that word often carries a magnanimous connotation that is associated with America’s rise to global prominence. Globalization is an ongoing process that is continually bringing the world closer together on an economic and societal level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SnR-e0S6Ic Historiography is defined by Merriam Webster as, the writing of history; especially :the writing of history based …
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Helen Goggins: Japanese Internment
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were rounded up and forced into internment camps. David Tatsuno and his family were relocated to Topaz Internment Camp. They were removed from their homes and were not allowed to bring many personal items with them. Tatsuno was forced to give his camera away to a…
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Native American Historiography
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One of the main subjects of the historiography of Native Americans as a whole would he how they have been “cast, recast, interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted” [1] more than anyone else in American History. Depictions of the Native Americans in the 19th century portrayed them as “savage” and talked about how america’s “winning of the …
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Andrew Pregnall: Historiography
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For this Tuesday’s class, I examined the historiographical approach known as either “history from below” or “people’s history.” Initially, I did not know that people’s history was its own historiographical approach because I always thought this style of historiography fell under a socialist/Marxist lens. I most likely thought this because a people’s history approach seems, …
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Feminist History in the Civil War
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Jason Arquette Professor Hirsh Blog Post 9u October 10th, 2017 The United States Civil War is often remembered in popular memory as a war of the states, a war over slavery, and war led by men of both the North and South. However, when approached from this perspective a rather significant portion of the population…
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Between Cultures: Sioux Warriors and the Vietnam War – Dan Crosson
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For our discussion on historiography and its forms and methods, I discovered an interesting article on the Sioux Native American perspective of the Vietnam War experience, both at home and on the front lines. John A. Little’s “Between Cultures: Sioux Warriors and the Vietnam War” focuses heavily on social and cultural aspects of the Sioux …
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Cece Burger: Feminist Historiography
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For this blog, I began on Wikipedia researching the basic facts of historiography and searching for a historiographical approach that appealed to me. I was drawn to feminist history and felt a re-reading of history from a female perspective would be interesting because it could engage with material I have already learned in a completely new …
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Historiography: Carter Man
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The article I looked at takes a unique approach to the Battle of Britain by looking at it from a socioeconomic perspective. The author discusses how conditions of poverty built up prior to the war, creating a sense of destitution among the British people. But once the Battle of Britain begun, the British came together…