knowledge which details with the past events; narration; a story; an account of existing things.

This is the definition of the word history from Webster's Expanded Dictionary, 1991. Today the

word history often has a certain haze around it. It is often one of the most disputed things in the

world today. One would think by looking at the definition, "An account of facts," that this

would be some simple idea to follow. After all, there is no computing, numbers, dissecting, or

anything else like one would expect to find in math and science. Instead, it is even more

challenging because there is often times when history is disputed due to the fact that there are

several different "eye-witness" accounts that greatly differ from each other for the same events.

To show this, and try to give a better understanding of the word history, the following materials

will be used: the essay entitled "Indians" by Jane Tompkins, and the documentary, Mr. Death-

The Rise and Fall of Fred Leuchter, Jr. directed by Errol Morris.

Tompkins essay deals with her research of the Indian life. She bases her

research on authors who have written books with

much about his social life. But instead of taking time to think about the consequences for

still deny the Holocaust(Bergman 165). This leads up to a very interesting point. Why do some

A study done in 1991 by the University of Georgia attempted to see what would happen

warned us that we can never fully understand their experiences(Bergman 3). Bergaman has

Next, Tompkins looks at a book called "New England Frontier: Puritans and

living there, and just using them as slaves. Tompkins compares this to how the Indians

Stahl, Steven A. What Happens When Students Read Multiple Source Documents in History?

Indians they were treated fairly. "New England Puritans followed a remarkably humane,

aftermath. He is just so amazed about how some people can just think that the Holocaust was

blatantly contradict each other. One has the settlers being friendly to the Indians, such as

he had done this, especially people who had first hand experience of the Holocaust. All

Some common words found in the essay are:
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