Essays on Historians

What is History? Historians use different historical approaches such as Marxism, the Annales School and Quantitative History as intellectual frameworks of their work by gathering sources, including primary and secondary sources, that span from written documents physical artifacts, art, advertising, film, propaganda from a time…

“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” As one of the founding fathers, John Adams played a very important role in the journey to America’s freedom and its initial start as a country. As the second president, many expected big things from the Massachusetts native, though…

Introduction Ibn Khaldun was an Arab historian. He was born in 27 May 1332 in Tunisia, North Africa. Ibn Khaldun was both a jurist and a Muslim scholar. He is the most important figure in Muslim History in the field of Sociology and History. He…

Who was Ibn Khaldun? Ibn Khaldun was social theorist and a historian in the late thirteen hundreds to the early fourteen hundreds’. Ibn Khaldun is still valued for his material in the twelfth and thirteenth century tribes of Northern Africa. Ibn Khaldun had numerous theories…

The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton Folsom describes the specific qualities and actions of industrial leaders during the gilded age. Previously, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt were understood as “robber barons” who caused corruption, monopoly, and price increases on their goods and services for…

Primary source documents are significant tools for historians when trying to acquire a complete picture of civilizations and events from the past. The most crucial piece of information for historians to remember when analyzing primary documents, whatever the source may be, is to consider: who…

In his book, The Landscape of History (2002), John Gaddis explores the methods which historians employ in order to examine past events and how to best apply the knowledge obtained from these periods of time into the workings of contemporary societies. It was apparent to…