HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Watergate Scandal, Theodore Roosevelt, Powhatan
15 Mar 2017
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Historiography the study of paste events and the historians who studied them. Major approaches: politics (cid:862)history is (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g (cid:373)ore tha(cid:374) past politi(cid:272)s, great (cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:449)i(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)ars a(cid:374)d (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g preside(cid:374)t(cid:863) Immigrants, women, minorities: the computer allowed for social history to be recorded, such as voting trends, the trend to today is to move back and include the political history in addition to the social history. Major historical periods: puritan historians, the first historians. John smith: this was the first important piece of history before the pilgrims, smith wrote to make money, so many of his stories were exaggerated, pocahontas(cid:859) story (cid:449)as told i(cid:374) (cid:862)the true history of virgi(cid:374)ia(cid:863) In this story, smith said that powatan (an indian) wanted to adopt him: the se(cid:272)o(cid:374)d editio(cid:374) of his (cid:271)ook is (cid:272)alled (cid:862)the ge(cid:374)eral history of virgi(cid:374)ia(cid:863) In this version, the adoption ceremony turned into an execution, and.
