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This is a repository of all my research, book reviews and essays from my undergraduate and graduate classes at California State University, East Bay. They appear in chronological order.

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In the Stream of Historiography

In my reflection of the writing of the historians we’ve covered in this class, from Herodotus through Alistair Thomson, I feel as though...

How Eusebius, Valla and von Ranke Professionalized History

Eusebius, and other early Christian writers, were pioneers in the practice of citing sources to lend credibility to their work. Continued...

Roman Historians Verses Early Christian Historians

The histories written by Roman and early Christian historians were composed different intentions but were written to capture and record...

Small Literature Review on Edward Hallett Carr and John Lewis Gaddis

Small Literature Review on Carr & Gaddis Edward Hallett Carr wrote in his 1961 book, What is History?, that “great history is written...

The Dialectics of Enlightenment

In Morris Berman’s The Twilight of American Culture, he posits that just as with major civilizations of the past, like ancient Athens and...

The Monastic Option

In Morris Berman’s The Twilight of American Culture, four factors are identified which are contributing to the loss of contemporary...

American Exceptionalism

Intellectual thought in America at its founding was dominated by those who ascribed to Enlightenment thought which originated in Europe....

Paine, Jefferson, Adams and Madison's Contributions to American Democracy

Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison all influenced the founding of the nation through their writings in many and...

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