Time on the Cross has many flaws and chief among them is the way Fogel and Engerman sought to give...
Month: January 2020
In our reading for this week, we looked at An Overview of Time on the Cross, by Herbert Gutman, which...
Time on a cross depicts a romanticized version of Southern slavery, specifically the labor conditions of those slaves and the...
Time on the Cross is a study that analyzes history from the perspective of economics and data. The most obvious...
A theme I noticed that appeared largely in both readings – a central theme in Johnson’s article, and heavily implied...
In regards to Sans Souci, it is fascinating that many Haitians did not understand the full history behind the name....
Trouillot focuses his efforts on emphasizing the importance of word choice and searching the silences within a particular set of...
When reading historical documents one of the biggest things to keep in mind is that the common phrase, "History is...
In the book I read this week, Trouillot showed his outstanding work in history in The Silent Past. He used...
The readings of this week, Chapters 1 and 2 of Michel-Rolph Troulliot’s, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of...