Tag: Gettysburg

• What is History? An Essay

  Every once in a while I like to post a “proper” essay with citations and everything. This one tries to answer the question, “What is History?” There is no simple answer to this question as you will see.  History is an educated guess on a wing and a prayer.  Mere shadows of the past come…

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  February 25, 2014

  History & Culture

  brown v. board, Bui Tin, civil rights, defining history, Dred Scott, George W. Bush, Gettysburg, historical veracity, Israel, plessy v. furgeson, pseudohistory, viet cong, what is history

• What is History: An Essay, Part I

  History is an educated guess on a wing and a prayer.  Mere shadows of the past come to life in history but can shadows be trusted?  Our views of history can be revised, mis-understood or completely wrong.  History can be pigeon-holed and molded to fit an ideology, point of view, or interpretation.  History can drive…

  sassevn

  April 5, 2012

  Civil War, Essay, History & Culture, Vietnam, Writing Excerpt

  Bui Tin, Gettysburg, History, Vietcong, Vietnam War