Gender history arose within the discipline of history within the context of the Women’s Liberation movement and the larger second wave of the feminist movement. However, to a large extent, this emergence was limited to women’s history, with less of a concern for broader issues of gender. Rather, not until a couple of decades later …
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More on social history’s and cultural history’s impacts on political history
Social and cultural history have impacted political history in a number of ways. In the case of social history, according to Mark Leff, whereas social history originally posited itself as a “remedy” to the overemphasis on elites of political history, over time, it has forced political history to re-examine itself, such that “rather than imprisoning …
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The impacts of social and cultural history on political history
The period I’ve chosen to examine in this assignment in the Third Reich (1933-1945). Two threads from social history that have emerged in the study of Nazi Germany have been analyses based on class and on violence. Regarding cultural history, two threads that have emerged over the course of several decades in studying Germany under …
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Social and cultural history
The two big things that the inclusion of social and cultural history do to the overall research process is expand the theoretical basis on which the interpretation of history can rest and enlarge the base of sources on which historians can rely. On the first point, whereas the historian working in the tradition of Ranke …
Historical lenses
As stated in the module overview for this week, historical lenses are the “various branches [of the discipline of history] that ultimately allow the historian to have a specialization, as it is impossible to know everything about everything.”[1] This seems to me a decent definition, although it does raise the question of where the limitations …
Book Review: Rozenblit’s ‘Reconstructing National Identity’
Rozenblit, Marsha L. Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. Marsha L. Rozenblit is Harvey M. Meyeroff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Maryland and a former President of the Association for Jewish Studies (2009-2011). Having studied under István Deák at …
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How the historian approaches research
The historian approaches research first by devising a research question. Once a question has been devised, the next step is to imagine the source base(s) that would be useful to answering the question and determining whether these sources are, in fact, available. The “meat” of the research begins with note taking and, while doing so, …
Latest news and the role of the historian
This post is intended to provide news that I’ll enroll in the fall at the University of Pennsylvania to earn a Master’s degree. More on that later, but in the meantime, I’ve enrolled in an online graduate history course at SNHU to complete 18 post-baccalaureate credits in history to qualify for teaching. For the next …
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Historians’ responses to Holocaust denial
The discipline of history has undergone multiple transformations over the course of the last 100 years, with the predominant empiricism of Rankean methodology giving way to numerous novel approaches, including the Annales school, social history, and various postmodern approaches embracing aspects of critical theory, Marxism, and feminism. To varying extents, these approaches have made their way into …
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Historians and narrative
Clearly, the extent to which historians have constructed narratives about the past have changed. As White notes, it was commonplace in the 19th century for the historian to do so, although at the time of the writing of his essay, that matter had changed. In his telling, the analytical philosophers, who “sought to establish the …
Inevitable Historicity 