The Saint Louis Gateway Arch National Park: Tossing Aside the Unfortunate Past
October, 2023 The historical study of urban renewal and gentrification has become highly relevant in the contemporary era, as these often-unfortunate phenomena have increasingly gained the spotlight of national media attention within the past decade. However, the notion that public history endeavors can be the harbinger of this displacement is not new. Seth Bruggeman’s Lost on the Freedom…
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Production of Historical Knowledge within Virtual Spaces
September 2023 Virtual spaces are gaining popularity with the public as technology continues to advance and become more accessible. In recent years, public historians have made use of this opportunity to create historical virtual spaces, in the forms of digital museums or exhibits, storyboards, and video games. These spaces can have the potential to provide the substance…
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Eurocentrism’s Grip: A False Mental and Methodological Framework
September, 2023. Introduction The rise of western civilization has been a topic that scholars from many fields have exhausted, especially in the case of history. Through engagement with these works, one can identify a strong Eurocentrist bias, in which historians place Europe as the source of most, if not all, advancement into modernity. Most employ a Eurocentric…
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Periodizing Historiography
September, 2023. Ancient Historiography Greek Historiography (700 B.C.E. – 500 C.E.) The Ancient Greeks’ historiography was utilized to preserve grand memories or tales of the past, to educate citizens, and to serve as entertainment. These histories arose during the Archaic Period in the form of myths and poetry and had no sense of change over time.…
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Doomed From the Start: The Death of The Noble Dream
September ’23 Since Leopold von Ranke’s ideas regarding the study of history crossed the Atlantic Ocean to America in the late 19th century, history, as a field, has undergone multiple transformative shifts. From the early days of the profession, scholars have debated on the “correct” methods one should utilize to produce history, as well as the overarching…
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The Duel of Objectivity and Subjectivity in History
28 August 2023 The historiography regarding metahistorical analysis is as enlightening as it is plentiful. This type of inquiry can often lead to recognition of shortcomings in the field, as well as the revelation of trends that historians often follow. The importance of engaging in this practice primarily lays in the investigation of the field over time.…
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Dalton G. King 