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  • Essay / Looking from the Completely Powerless to the Powerless

    Throughout history, most of the world's documented narratives have been interoperated by powerful elites. History is the history of humanity; therefore, like most stories, the story has two perspectives. After the end of World War II, historians began to look for other ways to analyze history. With the rise of the hippie movement, the Vietnam War, the women's rights movement, the civil rights movement, and the Cold War, historians began to question how, why, and what caused society to become Thus. The consensus movement began when historians first observed primary sources from outsiders in society. This eventually led to authors like Dan Richter, Woody Holton, and Walter Johnson all taking an opposing point of view throughout historical events. In order to properly teach history, we future historians must teach a two-sided interpretation of the powerful and the powerless. Ultimately, by understanding the suffrage of the underdog in society, proposed in Dan Richter's Facing East from Indian Country and Walter Johnson's Soul By Soul; as well as the outsider's point of view as described in Woody Holton's Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution; and articles by Tyler Anbinder and Vincent DiGirolamo contributed to the film “Gangs of New York, we can understand how their beliefs, culture and lives were affected by the powerful. This essay is not a novel about the history of the aliens themselves, but a critique of how history should be studied by examining the author's use of primary sources and the perspective of the aliens on society. IN THE ESSAY I WILL LOOK AT THE COMPLETE POWERLESS AT THE POWERLESS Dan Richter, a historian at the University of Pennsylvania followed the consensus movement...... middle of article...... the Historians must learn what these authors all teach, in their consensus novels, that teaching history through a faceted story is the only way to determine all perspectives of history. We must understand that the voices of outsiders matter just as much as those of the powerful. Richter and Johnson highlighted how difficult life for the lower classes could be because of Indian and slave suffrage. Ambinder and Holton show that outsiders still had the ability to change their destiny. Both of these details are out of place in history textbooks because history is taught on a factual basis. We teach history from facts that powerful white leaders wrote for us, so the losers are left out. History is a two-sided story, which means we need to teach both sides of losers and winners. It's the only way to understand the lives of the lost voices of strangers in the world..