HIS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Simulacrum, Lyndon B. Johnson
27 Mar 2015
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Lecture 10 - the very stuff of history. Evans covers this theme, which have covered all semester. 119 - cast the two positions between determinism vs. free will: another way to look at these opposing views is structure vs. agency. Evans says that the jfk"s death did not change the shape of us politics too much, instead of jfk getting involved in vietnam, it was lyndon johnson. 126 the horrible statue it takes real historian to actually make it what it is, it has always been there but we have to make it something important: comparing a historian to an artist. 112 brought up that carr meant that history should be telling a moral value/story. If cleopatra was ugly everything would be different we never would have seen the creation of the roman empire causation. 131 the train timelines, could ww1 existed if it wasn"t about train timelines was trying to raddle his colleges.
