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Some of the images in the reading, like "How to Spot a Jap," and the cartoon by Dr. Seuss (!) suggest that the gathering of Japanese Americans away from the Pacific Coast may have helped pro ...

Giving a name to an historical event can be important, but it is not the most important thing to remembering the event accurately. Americans call the war we were involved in "World War II," ...

The measures that Japan's leaders used to give the Japanese people a sense of pride do not seem to be draconian. They did not harshly punish those who would not go along with the national program. But ...

Fukuyama uses 'history' in a very narrow sense, to mean the struggle over controling the means of production and the form of government in the largest, most powerful nations. Because Western Liberal I ...

Of the three scientists, NEILS BOHR had the greatest impact on both the content of a major ranch of modern science -- atomic physics -- and on the larger conception of how science works. His first ach ...

Einstein made two great contriutions to understanding light. The first was to accept Max Plank's idea of light as composed of distinct quantities, called quanta, rather than waves, and to show how thi ...

It is not clear from the readings why Newton thought that light was composed of particles and not waves; the reasons for thinking it was composed of waves is given by the phenomenon of diffraction of ...

Contat's account is not history, even in the sense that Herodotus is history, but not because Contat may not be accurate or reliable. Contat's story can be used by a good historian, who can question t ...

The dominent philosophies and methodologies of both science and history have changed through the modern era, but they have been mostly compatable, they have changed together over the last two centurie ...

Kant was important to history because he created a way to analyze human behavior through a priori knowledge, similar to reasoning in science.

Hegel was important to science because of his understan ...

The eighteenth-century philosophers use "a priori" for knowlegde that is common to all men without being based on observation or experience. This seems to make such knowledge innat or inborn ...

Galileo makes a strong case for prefering direct experience (even experimentation), over authorities from the past. But in his argument with Sarsi, he picks an easy example -- the claim of authorities ...

I would say that both have important places in the documentation of history; it is most useful to have a very detailed history as well as interpretations, barring actual personal experiences from the ...