Monograph Essays

bondage and obtain their freedom. Many people would not assume that New York City was an important station on the Underground Railroad. Eric Foner, a professor and prominent historian from Columbia University, has published a monograph about the Underground Railroad. His monograph, titled Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad describes how New York City “was a crucial waystation in the metropolitan corridor through which fugitive slaves made their way from the Upper South”

Students will be required to read and evaluate the cultural and social factors of each monograph. Additionally students will assess the historiographical progression of cultural studies in American History. Considering the cultural history of each monograph will assist students in identifying themes that contributed to cultural changes in America’s past. (Needs one more sentence) Reading List Bibliography: Ayers, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (New York: Oxford

semester in my History 395 class we have read three historical monographs that covers a wide range of ordinary people in history. The first monograph we read was The Return of Martin Guerre by social and cultural historian Natalie Zemon Davis. The book covers a historical event about a 16th century French man named Martin Guerre who had his identity stolen by Arnaud du Tilh, and the reactions of the village and “his” family. The second monograph we read was Neighbors by political historian Jan T. Gross

Mike Burt HIS 325 Critical Review – Monograph Holquist, Peter. Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia's Continuum of Crisis, 1914- 1921. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. The Russian Revolution in 1917 was not only a part of Russian history, but was a pivotal event within the crisis that was occurring in Europe, putting the revolution and the resulting Russian Civil War within terms of European history beginning with World War I in 1914 and ending in 1921 when

Drehle, D. V. (2003). Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (1st ed.) New York, NY. Grove Press David Von Drehle’s Triangle: The Fire That Changed America is a historical monograph discusses the rise of labor reforms along with the Progressive Movement throughout the state of New York during the early 1900’s, and pushes forward the argument that the fire which decimated the Triangle Waist Company was vital to the entrance of laws advocated by unions that protect the safety of workers. Drehle himself

Scholarly reviews provide a reader with an analytical insight to an author’s analysis on a monograph. In The Comanche Empire, Pekka Hamalainen creates a thesis, which claims the Comanche Native Americans created a powerful empire in the Southwest. Assessing Hamalainen’s thesis, reviewers Joel Minor, Dan Flores, Gerald Betty, and Joaqin Rivaya Martinez present a variety of views on the monograph. Providing the strengths and weakness of Hamalainen’s text, each reviewer agrees and disagrees on several

closer the monograph and acquisitions staff decided to transition to the ILS system, Horizon. Although this plan was a proactive plan to defend the library’s system against the “Y2K’ bug, but instead the library had to take a three-month break from December 1998 to February 1999 while the staff trained, migrated information, and adjusted to the change. All of these different changes had their advantages and disadvantages, the new modifications helped improve the overall workflow of the monograph acquisitions

In Slaughterhouse-five, Kurt Vonnegut expresses the idea of Postmodernism through black humor, irony, and metafiction by using elements relate to war in order to resemble his response regarding to the idea of anti-war. When Billy travels back to Lions Club meeting, the speaker of the meeting is in “favor of increasing bombings”, in order to turn North Vietnam back to the “stone age” (76). The sense of black humor and the idea of increasing bombing to turn North Vietnam back to stone age demonstrates

David Von Drehle is an American author and journalist who received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver. He then earned and graduated from Oxford University with a master’s degree in literature and as a Marshall Scholar. He wrote “Triangle: The Fire That Changed America” which is a book about where the people of Manhattan, suffered the tragedy of the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire which took place in the Spring of 1911. This book is “One more attempt to open up the horror of the

A Different Outlook on the Crusades Rodney Stark, author of the monograph God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades, displays a different approach than most of what he believes was the cause of the crusades. The monograph displays the events of the crusades in chronological order to get an accurate understanding of what happened and when. The question that Stark is researching is the true cause of the crusades. In his introduction, Stark explains the general view of what historians believed caused

example, Collier-Thomas, and Franklin provide detailed information on the women in the Civil Rights Movement, including Bates. They focus Bates’ leadership skills and her personality as a leading figure in contrast to other women. However, the monograph focuses less on Bates’ leadership in the local NAACP branch and more so on just her leadership during the integration crises. Crawford et. al, also focuses on women, who participated in the Civil Rights Movement. They examine Bates’ role in the

Revolutionary Mothers by Carol Berkin is about woman in the time of the Revolutionary War that were affected by this event. When writing this monograph, Berkin focuses on the Patriot and Loyalist, American and British, and Indian and African American women. When Berkin writes in this way she makes the war seem more diverse to different groups of women and families. Although, there was a mixture of women they had similar qualities about them the author made clear she appreciates. All the women were

explores is representational culture. Specifically, how the family and individual members of the family are depicted through the arts and literature in the advent of the printing revolution. This is a broader theme explored throughout the monograph. Representations of the fallen King, the Band of Brothers, and the Bad Mother through the despised Marie Antoinette. While this is not the main theme of the book, it gives the reader a good idea about the pervading political climate of 18th century

the political and social tensions that ultimately led to the French Revolution. Through close analysis of primary sources, the authors use this singular event to reveal the mindset and the culture of Parisians during the eighteenth century. The monograph follows a two-day series of riots that erupted in Paris in 1750 as the public retaliated against police forces who they believed were abducting their children. As the police began to make arrests to maintain peace and

In Camilla Townsend’s historical monograph, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, Townsend points out that there are several historical inaccuracies and myths that are associated with the story of Pocahontas. Using historical evidence to support the story of Pocahontas, Townsend attempted to create an accurate timeline bringing the past to the present. This monograph attempts to recapture the humanity that the myth of Pocahontas stole from Amonute. We learn about the Native American girl behind the

Historiography Individual Books This source, Creating Rosie the Riveter, is a monograph written by Maureen Honey, which describes how during the 1940s, due to the need to fill jobs normally held by men, who were mostly enlisted overseas, the US government turned to its women and tried to persuade them to apply for jobs in factories, production, and management through propaganda, such as advertisements, pulp fiction, and magazines. It also examines how the image of Rosie the riveter was formed

Furthermore, Christian’s anti-Sandinista views add an interesting dynamic to scholarship on this topic. A majority of the works contributing to this field are primarily focused on how Augosto Sandino and the FSLN revolutionized the identity of the Nicaraguan government. Her book, however, aims to inspire other historians to re-assess the merit of the FSLN actions. Christian’s criticisms are vastly unpopular but add a compelling contrast to the popular views of the FSLN. She says, “The Sandinista

what they experienced leading up to, during, and after the bomb was dropped. The book’s main point would be that in the face of adversity, humans will react in various ways to ensure survival. I believe that Hersey is making this the point of the monograph because most of the book deals with how the interviewees responded to having an unknown disaster strike and them trying to recuperate to the best of their ability. The point is well backed because Hersey tells of the actions the many of those interviewed

which it conquered, has long been thought to achieve this through sheer aggressive militarism. However, the scholarly monograph Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and The Rise of Rome by Arthur M. Eckstein covers this contemporary view on how the Romans were able to achieve what others had previously failed and refutes it. In this review, I will consider Eckstein’s monograph and his argument on why the Romans were so successful. The most common misconception about the Romans comes from the way

My PhD examined major Underworld divinities in archaic and classical Greece, discussing select cults and myths associated with them. The thesis explores topics related to the study of Underworld or death-related divinities. This includes divine origins, how different divine personas were invoked for different purposes and the potential ubiquity of uses, death as an aetiological tool in ‘rites-of-passage’, and the connection between the Underworld and agriculture. I employed a model of thinly-coherence