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Author : Baruch Halpern
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271044699
Author : Thomas R. Martin
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781319242879
In this accessible volume, Thomas R. Martin compares the writings of Herodotus in ancient Greece with those of Sima Qian in ancient China to demonstrate the hallmarks of early history writing. While these authors lived in different centuries and were not aware of each other’s works, Martin shows the similar struggles that each grappled with in preparing their historical accounts and how their efforts helped invent modern notions of history writing and the job of the historian. The introduction’s cross-cultural analysis includes a biography of each author, illustrating the setting and times in which he worked, as well as a discussion of how each man introduced interpretation and moral judgment into his writing. The accompanying documents include excerpts from Herodotus’ The Histories and Sima Qian’s Shiji, which illustrate their approach to history writing and their understanding of their own cultures. Also featured are maps and illustrations, a chronology, questions to consider, and a selected bibliography.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9781465581570
Author : Thomas Bender,Philip F. Katz,Colin A. Palmer,Committee on Graduate Education
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780252090493
An examination and analysis of history education in American colleges and universities In 1958, the American Historical Association began a study to determine the status and condition of history education in U.S. colleges and universities. Published in 1962 and addressing such issues as the supply and demand for teachers, student recruitment, and training for advanced degrees, that report set a lasting benchmark against which to judge the study of history thereafter. Now, more than forty years later, the AHA has commissioned a new report. The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century documents this important new study's remarkable conclusions. Both the American academy and the study of history have been dramatically transformed since the original study, but doctoral programs in history have barely changed. This report from the AHA explains why and offers concrete, practical recommendations for improving the state of graduate education. The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century stands as the first investigation of graduate training for historians in more than four decades and the best available study of doctoral education in any major academic discipline. Prepared for the AHA by the Committee on Graduate Education, the report represents the combined efforts of a cross-section of the entire historical profession. It draws upon a detailed review of the existing studies and data on graduate education and builds upon this foundation with an exhaustive survey of history doctoral programs. This included actual visits to history departments across the country and consultations with scores of individual historians, graduate students, deans, academic and non-academic employers of historians, as well as other stakeholders in graduate education. As the ethnic and gender composition of both graduate students and faculty has changed, methodologies have been refined and the domains of historical inquiry expanded. By addressing these revolutionary intellectual and demographic changes in the historical profession, The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century breaks important new ground. Combining a detailed historical snapshot of the profession with a rigorous analysis of these intellectual changes, this volume is ideally positioned as the definitive guide to strategic planning for history departments. It includes practical recommendations for handling institutional challenges as well as advice for everyone involved in the advanced training of historians, from department chairs to their students, and from university administrators to the AHA itself. Although focused on history, there are lessons here for any department. The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century is a model for in-depth analysis of doctoral education, with recommendations and analyses that have implications for the entire academy. This volume is required reading for historians, graduate students, university administrators, or anyone interested in the future of higher education.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Double 9 Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9358019905
"The History of Herodotus" is a landmark work of ancient Greek literature, written by the historian Herodotus in the fifth century BCE. The first volume of the book begins with an overview of the geography and history of the Persian Empire, including the reign of Cyrus the Great and the rise of the Persian Empire. Herodotus also provides detailed accounts of the customs and traditions of the various peoples and cultures he encountered in his travels, including the Egyptians, Scythians, and Babylonians. One of the most famous and important sections of the book is Herodotus' account of the Battle of Marathon, which he describes in vivid detail. The battle took place in 490 BCE and was a decisive victory for the Athenian army over the invading Persian forces. Throughout the book, Herodotus emphasizes the importance of historical inquiry and the value of understanding the events of the past in order to better understand the present.
Author : John Morris Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114147866
"A fascinating and highly readable account of humankind's development over 10,000 years in a brilliantly illustrated volume by one of the world's most distinguished historians." -- Publisher's website.
Author : Barry Joyce
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498502160
This book analyzes the common narrative residing in American History textbooks published in the first half of the 19th century. That story, what the author identifies as the American “creation” or “origins” narrative, is simultaneously examined as both historic and “mythic” in composition. It offers a fresh, multidisciplinary perspective on an enduring aspect of these works. The book begins with a provocative thesis that proposes the importance of the relationship between myth and history in the creation of America’s textbook narrative. It ends with a passionate call for a truly inclusive story of who Americans are and what Americans aspire to become. The book is organized into three related sections. The first section provides the context for the emergence of American History textbooks. It analyzes the structure and utility of these school histories within the context of antebellum American society and educational practices. The second section is the heart of the book. It recounts and scrutinizes the textbook narrative as it tells the story of America’s emergence from “prehistory” through the American Revolution—the origins story of America. This section identifies the recurring themes and images that together constitute what early educators conceived as a unified cultural narrative. Section three examines the sectional bifurcation and eventual re-unification of the American History textbook narrative from the 1850s into the early 20th century. The book concludes by revisiting the relationship between textbooks, the American story, and mythic narratives in light of current debates and controversies over textbooks, American history curriculum and a common American narrative.
Author : Edward Eggleston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627931533
Continuing the biographical approach to teaching history found in his Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, Eggleston draws a more in-depth picture of the development of the United States using the stories of the living and breathing Americans who made it all happen.
Author : Waddy 1867-1939 Thompson
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 136232244X
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Author : Deborah E. Lipstadt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Zionists
ISBN : OCLC:36933735
Author : Diane Johnson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681374468
A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of Victorian life. “Many people have described the Famous Writer presiding at his dinner table. . . . He is famous; everybody remembers his remarks. . . . We forget that there were other family members at the table—a quiet person, now muffled by time, shadowy, whose heart pounded with love, perhaps, or rage.” So begins The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives, an uncommon biography devoted to one of those “lesser lives.” As the author points out, “A lesser life does not seem lesser to the person who leads one.” Such sympathy and curiosity compelled Diane Johnson to research Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith (1821–1861), the daughter of the famous artist Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) and first wife of the equally famous poet George Meredith (1828–1909). Her life, treated perfunctorily and prudishly in biographies of Peacock or Meredith, is here exquisitely and unhurriedly given its due. What emerges is the portrait of a brilliant, well-educated woman, raised unconventionally by her father only to feel more forcefully the constraints of the Victorian era. First published in 1972, Lesser Lives has been a key text for feminists and biographers alike, a book that reimagined what biography might be, both in terms of subject and style. Biographies of other “lesser” lives have since followed in its footsteps, but few have the wit, elegance, and empathy of Johnson’s seminal work.
Author : Benny Morris
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300145243
This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. Besides the military account, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Historian Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation. The Arab side--where the archives are still closed--is illuminated with the help of intelligence and diplomatic materials. Morris stresses the jihadi character of the two-stage Arab assault on the Jewish community in Palestine. He examines the dialectic between the war's military and political developments and highlights the military impetus in the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. He looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the battles that resulted in the emergence of the State of Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world--a humiliation that underlies the continued Arab antagonism toward Israel.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : D. J. Dickie,Rudiger Krause
Publisher : Winfield, B.C. : Red Leaf Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Canada
ISBN : 096810231X
Author : Earl Schenck Miers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : United States
ISBN : 1893103412
Author : Edward Eggleston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049340578