Distilled Spirits Council Launches ProhibitionRepeal.com

U.S. Newswire;  July 29, 2008 ;     361 words ......75thAnniversary of Prohibition Repeal, Legacies WASHINGTON...that highlights the history and legacy of Prohibition...year of national Prohibition Repeal. December 5th is...information about history of the Prohibition authored by some...economies, and a history of ...

History as a Theological Issue

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;  March 1, 2002 ;     554 words ...History as a Theological Issue. By Nico T. Bakker. Translated by...98.00. The quest to discover the redemptive essence of history in contemporary theological discussion is undertaken in...crisis in theological studies. If a redemptive "essence" in history is to be found, it is in the Hebrew concept of ...

History and computers: the views from selected social studies journal.

The Social Studies;  November 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...History is a method, a particular way, of studying the record of human experience. It is also a body of information ... basic...other branch of learning (Handlin 1967, 8). This statement comprises three essential aspects of the definition of history: history as the past itself, history as a body of ...

History and Theory.(Review)

History Today;  June 1, 1999 ;     693 words ...History and Theory Contemporary Readings Edited by Brian Fay, Philip Pomper and Richard...16.99 [pounds sterling] (pb) ISBN 0-63120952-2. THE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE of history as depicted in this collection comes largely from the pages of the journal History & Theory. Of the nineteen contributions ...

Where does history come from? Alun Munslow argues that the centrality of...

History Today;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...WHERE DOES HISTORY come from? This may seem like an odd question. Surely history comes from the traces of the past that historians...in another way. What happens if we choose to view history as what, from one perspective at least, it plainly...

History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.(Book Review)

CLIO;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory. By Dominick...that forced us to understand the tropological dimension of history and historical writing, the world of the historian and...linked. White's book not only marked a clear divide between history as what happened and history as ...

Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America

The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education;  September 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ...History is the realm of the singular and the unrepeatable, not because this is the logic of time but because it is the realm of human freedom. History is another name for freedom actualizing itself. Nature has no history, although it is in time and one can speak of the age of mountains, forests, seas, and...

What made us British? Hugh Williams describes how he and his colleagues...

History Today;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...History's ten worst days, fifty greatest leaders, 100 most famous battles, 1001 days that changed...on coming. This autumn sees a new one with the launch of a television series on the History Channel entitled Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History. The phrase 'need to know' is a deliberate ...

Culture, identity and the politicising of school history in the U.S.A.

Teaching History;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past Gary Nash, Charlotte Crabtree & Ross Dunn Alfred Knopf, New York, 1887 ISBN: 0 678 44687 7 If the battles over school history tell us anything, it is that history is not value free, it is inextricably bound to notions of cultural transmission, ...

Deconstructing History and Hitler

The Washington Post;  April 3, 1998 ;     700+ words ...MAKING HISTORY By Stephen Fry Random House. 380 pp...thought I'd written the novel "Making History" just a few years back. It was pretty...vanity possible around the idea of "making history." Graduate student Michael Young is really...

History on Film/Film on History.(Book review)

History Today;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...History on Film/Film on History Robert Rosenstone Pearson Education pp 182 14.99 [pounds sterling...derive their information about the past and their general sense of history not from a memory of school studies, or from reading scholarly works...

Where do I go with history? The past can help your future.(career map)

Career World, a Weekly Reader publication;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...How will history help you get a job or find a career? It...really. In many jobs, your knowledge of history and your interest in the past can help...archivist to museum curator--in which a history background is a major plus. According...

The History of Parliament. (Frontline).(The History of Parliament trust...

History Today;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...THE HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT TRUST, originally founded...the latest instalment in its multi-volume history, covering the House of Commons in the years...discussing the sources for parliamentary history in this period, setting out the political...

What is the future of history? Academic historians are becoming more...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ...History and National Life by Peter Mandler Profile, pounds 12.99, 184 pp pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 What is History Now? ed by David Cannadine Palgrave, pounds 19.99, 172...torrent of television programmes and best-selling books about history is a sign of social health. It reflects ...

HISTORY ON FILM/FILM ON HISTORY

Film & History;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...HISTORY ON FILM/FILM ON HISTORY. Robert A. Rosenstone. Pearson, 2006. 182 pages; $26.00. REAL MCLUHAN...media. When my colleagues in the historical profession dismiss film history or narrowly focus their film commentaries upon cinematic adherence...