Geschichtswissenschaftliche Blogs auf einen Blick
The national narrative in Uruguay is much like its landscape, a continuum without abrupt changes. However, the demands of recent history are creating pressure to modify it.
The post Resistance to the National Narrative in Uruguay appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-15/national-narrative-uruguay/
Paradoxically, relativity or relativism is often presented in an absolutist manner, as the proposition that nothing is true, and as a credo in which all is to be doubted apart from doubt itself....
The post Relativity, Historicity and Historical Studies appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-9/relativity-historicity/
In Russia, the October Revolution of 1917 is not celebrated for more than a quarter of a century. However, the centennial anniversary of 1917 cannot be circumvented - 1917 and the subsequent events, which are now commonly called the “Great Russian Revolution.”
The post Centenary of the Great Russian Revolution of 1917 appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-30/centenary-great-russian-revolution-1917/
Public historians and history educators both aim at “reaching the world outside the academy”. They face some common dilemmas, part. in Holocaust education. The...
The post Moral and Cognitive Dilemmas in History Education appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Are national days good examples of the wide-ranging influence of public history when it comes to building historical beliefs among the majority of the population?
The post National Day at School? appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-28/national-day-at-school/
The bombing of Dresden in 1945 has been interpreted as a barbarian destruction of an “innocent city” - until today. The “Monument” by the Syrian-German artist, M. Halbouni, challenges this remembrance.
The post Remembering in Dresden 2017 appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5201715/remembering-in-dresden-2017/
We can observe great differences in how teachers deal with the history of their own country ("Heimatkunde") in the classroom. Some of them impart the national master narrative. Others present counter-narratives.
The post How Should History of One’s Own Country Be Taught? appeared first on Public History Weekly.
The absence of the past is often disconcerting and uncanny but is, nevertheless, inevitable. Reflections on the reasons for historical ignorance.
The post Disturbing Historical Ignorance: Narrative, Doxa, Paradox appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Today’s Facebook kids live in a global village and speak multiple languages. The tide of cosmopolitanism is running in their favour. Yet, the teaching...
The post Should History Promote National Identification? appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-10/history-promote-national-identification/
If we examine most of troubled pasts presented in educational scenarios, two features clearly appear. Most of the historical events have a national character and most of them happend just recently.
The post Teaching of Troubled Pasts—Three Suggestions appeared first on Public History Weekly.
Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-1/teaching-of-troubled-pasts/