"Personal feelings or recollections can challenge traditional views and bring history to life." How effective have representations of personal feelings or recollections been in challenging traditional views and bringing history to life in the texts you have engaged with in this elective? ... The Fiftieth Gate further explores the notion that a personal recount can provide a supplementary narrative to documented history. ... Directed by Liev Schreiber, this text explores the idea that tangible evidence of a historical event can juxtapose personal and objective history to create a more comple...

• Word Count: 1163
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Despite the level of perfect literature in "Roger Malvin's Burial," and "My Kinsman Major Molineux," Hawthorne is historical in both narratives. ... Many critics query that Robins journey through New England is a journey of personal growth, and not a journey intended to expose historical conflicts of the Revolution. ... I identify with the idea that "My Kinsman Major Molineux" could be entirely about the internal growth of Robin blossoming from a child into a man. ...

• Word Count: 911
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their new history touches many Americans and invites each to make a personal interpretation of history. ... These two ideas fought for control of American minds from the moment the Revolution ended. ... Many historians were insisting that consensus rather than conflict marked American political history and that the absence of European-style class conflict had indelibly shaped American institutions and ideas. ...

• Word Count: 2043
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate