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Visual Aid for Oral Presentation

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Mallory

This is the Powerpoint (in its rough draft) that will go with my Oral presentation. The picture of the young girls holding dolls on the second slide will help represent the gender stigma the girls experienced in Nazi Germany. The book on the third slide is one of the three main sources that are helping…

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Recent Historical Field’s Impact

Posted on October 18, 2019October 21, 2019 by Mallory

Blog post #5: How do more recent fields (e.g. women’s & gender history, environmental history, others?) add to the study of history? Where or how do we see them engaging with older and ongoing fields of history? How do these diverse subfields compare in their strengths & limits? New fields of history are providing new…

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Evaluating Historical Fiction

Posted on October 7, 2019October 8, 2019 by Mallory

Blog post #4: How should we evaluate and/or utilize a work of historical fiction such as Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints? Works such as Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel are helpful in providing different avenues of understanding for events such as the Boxer Revolution. The drawings within the graphic novel gives the events more…

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The Topic

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Mallory

Q: What is the topic—i.e. what focused category of historiography–are you considering as the focus for your literature review? What interests you in historians’ work on this subject of study? Briefly introduce one key work of peer-reviewed, academic scholarship published in the last twenty years on the topic. The topic that I have chosen is…

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Key Categories of Historical Analysis

Posted on September 15, 2019September 13, 2019 by Mallory

Question: What are the key categories of historical analysis and/or approach that Citino draws in his review of military history as a field? What are the fundamental conclusions he draws or key arguments he makes? What quote or quotes (be brief—just one or two lines) do you find illustrates these best? Be sure to use…

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Blog Post #1: Academic Writing Standards

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Mallory

Question: What are the standards for quality academic or professional history? How is this different from popular history? How do we tell the two apart? Why do the standards matter? To begin, it can be beneficial to look at the differences between popular historical writings and academic historical writings. A good indicator that a piece…

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