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Daniel Defoe as a Historian
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T17:09:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 6303282.PDF: 9033070 bytes, checksum: 7d09d5ec88e5ff4a5acb4639d61bd3be (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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Ammianus Marcellinus as a Military Historian
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T18:01:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6915289.pdf: 12116286 bytes, checksum: 998cfbadf891f5b76b19f06c01e1ca93 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Teaching to Think & Read Like a Historian
This study explores how a disciplinary literacy framework could impact adolescent comprehension in the content area of social studies. I collected qualitative data by recording interviews with five high school social studies teachers, while also analyzing the school’s curriculum and its integration …
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Evarts Boutell Greene: The Career of a Professional Historian
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:25:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7013378.pdf: 15893551 bytes, checksum: 455d2cd4408b38694d32d657fd55f525 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Steve Bantu Biko: Politician, 'Historian' and 'Proponent' of African Traditional Religion
The topic is "Steve Bantu Biko: Politician, 'Historian' and 'Proponent' of African Traditional Religion". It is known by everybody that Steve Bantu Biko was a politician. This has been revealed by his teachings, what his contemporaries have written and by his commitment to the course of the …
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"An Eighteenth-Century Man": David Martyn Lloyd-Jones as a Pastor-Historian
… terms of his theology and outlook. As a pastor-historian, he then sought to bring the thinking and practice of these revival leaders to bear on twentieth-century evangelicalism. This thesis is proven through an in-depth study of Lloyd-Jones’s development as a man of history through his exposure …
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From hostage to historian: Josephus, the emperors, and the city of Rome
The voluminous works of the Judaean historian Flavius Josephus have been and continue to be of tremendous importance for our understanding of the worlds in which he lived. For centuries his works have been thoroughly investigated by scholars in diverse fields. Until more recently, however, the …
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A New Look at Etienne Pasquier: The Historian as a Letter-Writer
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T23:56:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212135.pdf: 8072444 bytes, checksum: f1f1ccaca677c46fa3fade151dd99df5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Contemporary art and the search for history—the emergence of the artist-historian
Focusing on the concept of the artist-as-historian, this dissertation examines the work of four contemporary artists in a transnational context. In chapter one, I examine the representations of economic inequality and globalization (Allan Sekula, the United States); in chapter two, the racial …
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The Soviet System and the Historian: E.V. Tarle (1875-1955) as a Case Study
… an almost insurmountable obstacle for the historian. The ra tionale behind historical scholarship has been and still is utility, with the historian being used as a tool in support of ideological or political platforms proposed by the Party. As an employee of the state, the historian has …
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Sicily's Artful Historian: An investigation into the historical thought and method of Diodorus Siculus
… traditionally been seen as a quarry for the lost historians on whose works he drew while researching it. Consequently, Diodorus has not been studied as a historian in his own right, and the Bibliotheke has become little more than a jigsaw puzzle, with sections attributed to any number of lost …
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Social Science, Social Cohesion, and Moral Uplift: The Historian and the Development of Modern American Secondary School History Curricula
… and moral beliefs prevalent among American historians on the development of modern American secondary school history curricula at the end of the nineteenth century. It traces both the origins of the American historical profession and the profession's energetic efforts to extend its influence …
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John Clark Ridpath--United States Popular Historian: A Social and Intellectual Biography and an Examination of A Genre of Literature
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317427.pdf: 19404984 bytes, checksum: 0e5a0583799be690781bc28d734a54a4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Engines of Agency and Affect: A Model for Interactive Histories
… digital humanities methodologies that allows a historian to derive historical aesthetics and agencies from their historical research, then adapt their knowledge as game and narrative mechanics. In doing so, the historian also adopts the practices of a game designer; they become a …
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