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James Harvey Robinson (June 29, 1863 – February 16, 1936) [1] was an American scholar of history who, with Charles Austin Beard, founded New History, [a] a disciplinary approach that attempts to use history to understand contemporary problems, which greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship in relation to the social sciences.
The Concord Review: A Quarterly Review of Essays by Students of History is an academic journal dedicated to publishing the history research papers of high school students. [1] It was established in 1987 by William H. Fitzhugh , a Massachusetts educator dismayed with the " dumbing down " of writing standards in American secondary schools.
The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, is an anthology of twenty essays and fourteen sidebars dealing with counterfactual history. It was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1999, ISBN 0-399-14576-1, and this book as well as its two sequels, What If? 2 and What Ifs? of American History, were edited by Robert Cowley.
A history of multiple discoveries involving LATE appears in Baker and Lindeman (2024). [ 127 ] 1998: Saul Perlmutter , Adam G. Riess , and Brian P. Schmidt —working as members of two independent projects, the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Search Team —simultaneously discovered in 1998 the accelerating expansion of the ...
In historiography, historical revisionism is the reinterpretation of a historical account. [1] It usually involves challenging the orthodox (established, accepted or traditional) scholarly views or narratives regarding a historical event, timespan, or phenomenon by introducing contrary evidence or reinterpreting the motivations and decisions of the people involved.
Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something previously unrecognized as meaningful, "portal". In sciences and academic disciplines, discovery is the observation of new phenomena, new actions, or new events and involves providing new reasoning to explain the knowledge gathered through such observations, using knowledge previously acquired through abstract thought and from ...
In a review of the book Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce Trigger, Marxist archeologist Randall H. McGuire (at Binghamton University) observed in 2014 that "the festschrift [book] and the memorial volume are dying enterprises", and suggested that creating festschrift websites instead, because many observers think that the festschrift volumes ...
A literature review is an overview of previously published works on a particular topic. The term can refer to a full scholarly paper or a section of a scholarly work such as books or articles. Either way, a literature review provides the researcher/author