EyeWitness to History features first-person accounts of prominent events in U.S. and world history, along with an explanation of the event’s importance. It was created as a source for viewers to read about "history through the eyes of those who lived it." This article retells Pavel Medvedev’s account of the night, who was a member of the squad of soldiers guarding the royal family. He tells of how Commandant Yakov Yurovsky, head of the execution squad, ordered him to take the Nagant revolvers from
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are becoming more and more disinterested in learning about our country’s history and current events. Over the last forty years, it is apparent that Americans have become less knowledgeable on he subject of American government and policy. Today’s world is filled with technological tools that we use on a daily basis, Jacoby argues that it is this that has pulled the American people away from a broad knowledge on our history. Going back to when Franklin Roosevelt was president, a majority of the people
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Memorializing events from history are based on different criteria that come for the specific event. In some cases a memorial can pay tribute to a great achievement. Others are show respect for a tragedy that can never be changed. While these are good reasons to provide a memorial there are other things needed to be considered in order to be worthy of a memorial. Without certain criteria every signal failure and success to ever happen would be memorialized. With history being as eventful as it was
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While reading over the two books that I have chosen for my topic I noticed that they have some similarities but also some differences of course. When reading over Diary of a Dirty Little War: The Spanish-American War of 1898 by Harvey Rosenfeld, I enjoyed how everything was in chronological order. All the events that took place were very descriptive and painted a very clear picture of what had went on during that time frame. On the other hand, as I was reading An Army for Empire by Graham A. Cosmas
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he will be able to prove the true events and eliminate the fictional information. For Sam Houston’s Speech, James started to demonstrate errors between what was written versus what was being said and actions made by the well-known figure of Texas history Sam Houston. Sam Houston speech was documented by Eugene C. Barker who depicted Sam Houston as being racist towards Mexicans in his speech. He stated, “Had Eugene C. Barker been right all along when
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Docker’s ‘Is History Fiction?’ and Noah Berlatsky’s ‘How 12 Years A Slave Gets History Right: By Getting It Wrong’ we can see that the potential of film to present a true version of the past. Looking back to reflection 1 we can see that discussion has suggested that a historical film tells, or makes a clear attempt to tell, a true/ accurate story of the past. Ann Curthoys and John Docker state in their introduction of ‘Is History Fiction?’, ‘No one – including us – would do history, would pursue
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The Wounded Knee Massacre: Critique edition History is the very thing that molded our country to what it has become today, however we rarely realize how much of history we have not been introduced to. When reading “Pressing the Issue at Wounded Knee” by Randy Hines, a reader would learn about the tragedy that caused Soldiers of the American soldiers directed at the Sioux tribes in South Dakota. Giving the reader a chance to understand what was truly happening between these two groups of people.
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History is complex and in order to fully understand it, it must be looked at through many different perspectives. As it is not always clear as to what is the truth and what is left off the page. The truthful analysis of history is vital to our success as human beings and to society as a whole. Science and future technology depends on history to look back on as evidence and to help point humanity in the right direction. Whether it is looking at deadly diseases and trying to fight cancers, or fixing
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Discuss why ‘A demographic analysis of Maiden Castle hillfort: Evidence for conflict in the late Iron Age and early Roman period’ is an important archaeological discovery and/or resource. What does it tell us about the past? A demographic analysis of Maiden Castle Hillfort by Rebecca Redfern and Andrew Chamberlain is an important piece of writing to archaeologists as it uncovers and debates the origin story of a famous archaeological site. The demographics is defined by statistical data about the
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Do historical fictions, like The Question of Hu help us study the past? In this case, they help us gain a better knowledge of the way of life in that century, but we are not taught much about the history of Jesuit recruitment in Asian countries such as China. Jonathan Spence presents a contrast between the European and Asian cultures through a Chinese gatekeeper and local Europeans. We notice a cultural and language barrier between these two groups as Spence clearly provides many examples throughout
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