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A unique and expansive 13th-century text that set out to chronicle the history of humankind is being translated and analyzed ...
Droysen had never been an apolitical historian, even when writing on ancient history. But as he undertook to write the most important texts of the last phase of his career, theLife of York von ...
The rewriting of national history is a calculated move to bolster an increasingly authoritarian government, as it relies ...
The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History seminar convenes for the second time under the heading "Isms in Historiography and the History of Isms", Unioninkatu 38, lecture room A 205, 5 September ...
Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...
For, despite Thucydides, contemporary history has held a precarious status in the annals of historiography. As men like Thucydides began to fix a present and thereby to create a “past,” it was ...
The preparation and drafting of these three new volumes constitutes a pivotal scientific production by UNESCO for a better understanding of African history and historiography. In this respect, it ...
According to Benjamin Schmidt of Northeastern University, the number of bachelor’s degrees granted in history declined from 34,642 in 2008 to 24,266 in 2017 even as other majors, such as ...
This, again, is where historiography comes in. “Historiography asks us to scrutinize how a given piece of history came to be written,” wrote Loewen in his introduction to the The Confederate ...