The Victors Write History, the Vanquished Literature: Myth, Distortion and Truth in the XV BrigadeAnthropology poeticdisciplinary mutationanthropological literature in ChileJuan Carlos OlivaresreceptionThe pres
The world spills over in ashes and grey, as the structures try to keep out those who they feel do not deserve…anything. History is written by the victors, but life is written by the survivors. Neither one is ever out of the game, as long as the game moves on. But time does make ...
In 1924, Encyclopedia Brittanica published an enormous compendium on the preceding quarter century of history, titled “These Eventful Years: The Twentieth Century in the Making, as Told by Many of Its Makers; Being the Dramatic Story of All that Has Happened Throughout the World During the Most...
Annie:It was just something I always wanted to do – I remember writing ‘The Adventures of Ferdinand the Hedgehog’ when I was around 7 or 8. I think the desire to write history came later, partly influenced by the sorts of novels I preferred reading, and partly from a growing love of...
History is written by the victors.- Winston Churchill "Mother Teresa Prayer"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;... Forgive them anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse youof selfish, ulterior motives;... Be kind anyway.If you are successful, you will win somefalse...
Super Bowl victors, did not appear on "Monday Night Football." (The Rams won in 1999 after not appearing on Monday night, but there was no TMQ that season.) In 2003, my prediction came oh so close -- Carolina, not a Monday night baby, lost the Super Bowl on the final snap. Two ...
” The victors of history have been able to write the story in the way they have chosen since the dawn of time, and by telling the suppressed stories we hope to recover the stories of suffering and victimization that were dismissed. We must, we believe, speak truth to power, and in ...
I am not going to trace the whole Protestant Reformation in this history. This post is long enough, and the Reformation is not part of the history of the great Roman church of the early centuries of Christianity. I will mention that the influence of the Reformation on lords and peasants al...
There are a few sure things about reading history books. Firstly, and most obviously, you generally know how it ends (badly, in the case of the Paris Commune). What is important is what you learn from the events discussed. Secondly, when it is a Marxist account you are guaranteed that ...
‘they say history is written by the victors, but it’s also true that they unwrite it. that’s how uncle manuel, who was bad and acted badly, is only in the registers of local history as the mayor of his town for a few years. and that’s all.’ ...