Essays on Historians

E. P. Thompson and Powell are two historians who prioritize broader anthropological and psychological categories in their historical approaches to explaining riots. Although they utilize similar categories, they have opposing views within those categories. Thompson describes how a small community consensus on morality that is...

In the book, American Dreams: Lost and Found, 1980 Studs Terkel who is one oral historian interviewed the C. P Ellis, a former president (Exalted Cyclops) of the Durman chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Based on the interviewed, Terkel learned that Ellis had been...

I am archeologist. I am just arriving back in the United States after 2 years of being in Catalhoyuk, A very small ancient town where the first humans lived in towns. I am here to share and report to you my findings of artifacts. As...

Historians record history in different ways. History textbooks only state facts, but they do not analyze the events that they discuss. Three concepts that are an important aspect of every civilization are art, transportation, and politics because they reflect the culture and the inner workings...

Herodotus and Josephus are two historians separated by over four centuries, yet they both have similarities in their writing from the kind of story they tell, to their way of writing. Both men wrote about a war between their own people and a more powerful...

The whole article talks about how a person’s perspective can affect one’s principle. The world we are in has a lot of happenings that may lead us wondering what we should do or what should have been done to make things different when something bad...