This resource provides a brief introduction to writing in the field of History through the lens of threshold concepts. It includes: An overview of what writing characteristics are valued in History ...

The following is a student paper from the course ART 188: History of Western Art (Renaissance to Modern). Miami faculty from Art History have inserted comments to indicate and explain disciplinary ...

Schoolchild’s homework in Greek on a wax tablet, Egypt, 2nd century AD (copyright the British Library) LONDON — A 2,000-year-old wax tablet bears inscriptions of the Greek homework of an Egyptian ...

History isn’t just the study of distant past. We, too, are living through history, and I’m convinced that we’d benefit enormously from understanding how our own time fits into the broader sweep of ...

Introduction : History's changing fortunes -- The rise and fall of cultural theories -- The challenge of globalization -- Rethinking society and the self -- New purposes, new paradigms "With history ...

Children at a depot in New York City to greet their parents after a mass strike parade, US, 1911. (Photo by Paul Thompson / FPG / Archive Photos / Getty Images) The many and conflicting ways that ...

The signs, at first, were small. On December 15th 2019 mentions of “pneumonia” and the Chinese word feidian (SARS) started to spread on WeChat, a Chinese social-media app, multiplying faster than any ...

THE witty remark of Dumas, that Lamartine had raised history to the dignity of romance, would have appealed to Thomas Buckle, who was much occupied with reducing it to the level of a science. Critics ...