A person of great wisdom and wisdomIf someone asks me which historical figure I like, I will say: I like The Three Kingdoms period Shu outstanding politician, thinker, strategist, the embodiment of wisdom - Zhuge Liang.Through the ages, Zhuge Liang has been deeply loved by people and has ...
Key People: Winston Churchill Victor Hugo Xenophon Aleksandr Pushkin Sir Walter Scott Related Topics: genre See all related content historical novel, a novel that has as its setting a period of history and that attempts to convey the spirit, manners, and social conditions of a past age with ...
” Accurate portrayals ofhistoricalHollywood movies are more or less unheard of. These movies show a false representation of what occurred in the time period‚ making it hard for people to know fact from fictionaboutthe past. The movie Noah‚ despite its best efforts‚ is not histo...
Writer Caryl Phillips's latest narrative "Cambridge," is analyzed. The novel wears the mask of fiction but reveals its matrix in historical narratives, which are in turn unmasked by the text's process and shown to be insidiously fictional in their claim to "the truth." DOI: 10.1177/002198949...
Have a historical fiction book that you're dying to write? This article will walk you through the basics of what you need.
Write with Grammarly When to use historic vs. historical Historic is an adjective that comes in handy when we speak about people, places, or events that existed or happened in the past. But we can’t use the adjective for everything that relates to the past—only those things and people...
What a gift for them to discover, early on, that young people have always been the drivers behind environmental activism. In this vein, I am sharing four outstanding new non-fiction picture books with you today. The first two are focused specifically on the environmental movement, while the ...
I imagine life was quite hard, and you were permanently living with quite strict bosses and landlords. However, this was also a time when many artisans developed crafts and people started to learn to write and read. What is also interesting is that Egypt was the first country to record havi...
Adding to the drama was the affair between Burton and Taylor (who were both married to other people at the time) and the resulting media frenzy. Although the scandal helped generate huge interest in the movie—Cleopatra was among the highest-grossing films of 1963—the studio was unable to ...
historical literature being produced specifically about Black women.The basic assumption of most of the work produced by historians of Afro-American women is that there is a large body of unexplored accomplishment that merely awaits those with the interest and resources to dig it out and write it...