Historical Literature Essay Examples and Topics

There can be no doubt as to the fact that, at the time "The Mahabharata" was being composed, the majority of women in India were being oppressed, socially and domestically.

The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas are both stories by John Boyne about Bruno, a nine-year-old boy narrating his experience in World War II [...]

In Chapter 1 "Return of Fear", Gaddis states that the Cold War was caused due to the competing and divergent ideologies of the United States and the Soviet Union.

The newly established nation that appeared as the outcome of the revolution was eager to proclaim its patriotism and to share its feelings of pride with the rest of the world.

This essay will consider the relevance of the topic introduced by Saunders and provide actual historical examples that support his hypothesis."The Red Bow" starts with a group of men going out for a dog hunt [...]

Geoffrey Chaucer has also been able to write quite a good number of poems such as The Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls and The Legend of Good Women.

The purpose of this book is to bring out the story of the Mexican people before the invasion by the Spaniards.

Chapter one details the origin of the cowboys and the beginning of the cattle trade through the introduction of the longhorns.

The general tone of the poem is defined by the contrast of the beautiful and the ugly, the good and evil manifesting themselves through the experience of people at war.

Her analogy sets the setting for her narrative framework, which portrays the English colonists as God's anointed and the Native Americans as the scourge sent by God to torment the English in order to lead [...]

The existing residential school system is one of the examples provided in the text as it contributes to the deterioration of the institution of family and the native culture of people.

The information from the chapter is crucial as it shows that world politics and social order have changed due to the new ideas of liberty and nationhood.

Austin, the brother of his wife, were involved in Texas land distribution, and their participation is demonstrated by Perry's letter that refers to the purchasing of land, as well.

In particular, one of the prominent settlers was William Bradford, who sailed to North America on the Mayflower in 1620 and established and governed Plymouth Colony.

In this autobiography, Equiano is very definite in his mission to convince his readers of the existence of the slave trade in the 17th century, including the predicament and lifestyle of most of the slaves.

Like many books on the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel's Night is a dramatic picture of the horror times in the history of humankind and particularly in the history of the Jewish people.

The image of soldier Kien in The Sorrow of War demonstrates the difficulties of the Vietnamese people before, through and after this war.

The style and substance of the content are persuasive, mainly due to the author's utilization of rich archival sources, which significantly solidifies the validity of his assertions and authenticates the narrative. Stolen is a lucid [...]

Driven by the promise of his father, Jakob, to be reunited after the war, the main character of the story finds it indispensable to rely on God, for only He is able to lead the [...]

The book, being very sincere and straightforward, gives us one of the brightest and most detailed pictures about the horrors of the biggest military conflict in human history.

Whether it is the fact that the author leads the reader beyond the boundaries of the socially acceptable or makes a cautious warming about the threats that await for the reader in the craziest of [...]

One of the main ideas in the book is the post-war effects on the well-being of the people. The main idea portrayed in the writing is the theme of loneliness and loss to the loved [...]

Nevertheless, the way the facts are grouped and delivered could be conducive to students' ability to develop a clearer picture of the catastrophic downturn's influences on the nation's and the poor population's mentalities.

The foremost ideological thesis, which defines Brzezinski book's practical implications, can be summarized as follows: ever since 75% of world's population and of world's natural resources are located in Eurasia, and ever since Eurasia generates [...]

The Vietnam War was perceived as injustice because of the discrepancy between the loose form it took and the form the soldiers had been trained to identify and label as such.

The third episode from the novel to support that Yu Hua is not biased against the nationalist period is that the civil war ended in the victory of the communist ideology.

The first chapter of the book is highly significant for the overall understanding of the book's message as it provides the context in which the rest of the narration should be perceived.

It was mostly the fact that Indians were deprived of their civil rights in their own county, which was the cause of the rebellion, and, naturally, they wanted to achieve self-government.

Her strong faith helped her to endure her captivity and ultimately be restored to her family. Rowlandson's faith in God gave her the strength to endure this difficult situation.

This paper will therefore analyze the history of the story based on McLaurin's book, give the moral anxieties it springs up, the reactions of various characters in the book and finally extrapolates on the inadequacies [...]

Hughes also demonstrates that he has a much higher understanding of human nature in his descriptions of the people of the church and his slight addition of sarcasm within the essay.

As implied by the title, the poems are about various changes in the society of the author. Irony is used where the meaning of a statement or a phrase in literary work is different from [...]

The author also ties the multicultural history of people comprising American diversity with a thorough analysis of the place they are at the time of writing his book.

With imagery that allows the reader to experience his trials and worries, the story describes his experiences and hurdles on his way to his new "free life" in New York.

The story focuses on the unification of the disparate chiefdoms of Mande and the decline of Ghana, as well as the development of trade routes.

In the age of 13 Huda was married to her cousin, Ali Shaarawi. In the beginning of the twentieth century Huda was eagerly trying to unite women of Egypt.

The book Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army by Catherine Merridale is an attempt to investigate the destinies of ordinary people, who served in the Red Army, in the course of the [...]

At the very outset, it was clear to the soldiers that the war in Indochina was not being conducted in terms of the glory myths on which they had been raised. The second part of [...]

The Old English epic poem Beowulf presents a good illustration of the relations and obligations of lords and vassals. God defines the rights and obligations in feudal society.

Prior to the completion of the letter, the shop was reduced down to ashes together with Cecil, the person who fetched her to Jamaica, mistreated her sexually and who assisted her in putting up the [...]

Gradually we get to know about the powerful influence of globalization on the century and its culture in general, about the relationships between Islamic world and the Western culture; and the most interesting is how [...]

On the other hand, it is important to understand that a number of people are aware of the plot and the worth of the story, and it is a real challenge to prove the chosen [...]

With the help of such literary elements as images and a point of view, the author achieves a better transfer of the emotions and experiences of the characters and realistically depicts war events.

At the heart of the book is the court case, which paints a vivid picture of how the various African people interacted with the British on the colonial Gold Coast in the 1870s.

Nevertheless, the streaming growth of the industrial revolution of the 19th century brought some significant changes to the understanding of social inequalities."The Semplica-Girl Diaries" is one of the chapters from the diary called Tenth of [...]

Thus, the rise of colonialism in the second half of the 19th century is linked to the growth of capitalism in Europe.

The plot attests at how people undergo a sort of rite of passage in order to be accepted by society, the rite exemplifies itself as a formal admission to a certain way of life of [...]

The current research paper was written in order to analyze Antigone's courage in the context of the philosophy of Aristotle and overall ideals of the Ancient Greece.

The story he tells us the story that discusses the German culture and societal class in the early 16th Century and provides a vivid account of the social interaction between the noble class, the army [...]

It also deconstructs assumptions made about the battles that took place and the consequences of the war for the United States and the world in general.

The incident changed Eliezer's attitude where the fulfillment of getting the bread at that particular period outweighed the life of his father.

The writer points out a very curious paradox; he says that France and other Western nations immensely shaped political thinking of the Vietnamese but these states did not give them any resources to sustain the [...]

There is surprisingly little literature pertaining to the subject of the first years after the end of the war. As the name of the chapter suggests, it addresses the issue of vengeance that happened in [...]

The journey is the starting point for a disenchanted reading of the Japanese colonialist era at the turn of the twentieth century.

Hence, Preston states the following: The constitution established Spain as a Parliamentary Monarchy, with the king as 'head of state and supreme commander in chief of the armed forces' and a symbol of the unity [...]

The main message of the author is that the emotional problems are caused by a silence which is crucial for understanding one facet of the soldiers' role conflict.

The relationship of Death with this girl is extraordinary, and the story revolves around a trait in this girl which makes her a passionate book thief.

It is the reflection of certain processes and phenomena that took place in the Scandinavian society in the epoch depicted in the saga.

The culture of consumerism that was unravelling and the rising popularity of television led to the development of the marketing industry as people know it today.

Nottage found her great-grandmother's picture in an old family house and wanted to learn more about what it was like to live in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century, but she had [...]

In his book, The Twenty Years' Crisis 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations, Edward Hallett Carr studies the political and economic factors that predisposed the creation of the conflict, at the same [...]

The book is a powerful testimony to the horrors of the holocaust and how people can lose their humanity and innocence.

At the beginning of the story, Gilgamesh, the king of the Sumerian city of Uruk, despite achievements in the development of the town, causes the dislike of his subjects.

The Europeans took advantage of the disunity among the native tribes to grab their land and exploit them. The author explains that the Native Americans designed a similar language to the Europeans to communicate with [...]

Anne Frank has compiled several versions of her diary, and one of them was directed at the readers of the future who should know about all the misfortunes of civilians during the Nazi occupation of [...]

The races portrayed in the novel are real and existed in the time of the writer. The Last of the Mohicans is set on the American frontier during the French and Indian War.

The provided passage is taken from Mein Kampf, the most known work of Adolf Hitler, the infamous leader of the NSDAP since 1921 and the F hrer of Nazi Germany in 1934-1945.

The author discusses the belittling of black people and the preservation of white supremacy, describes how black citizens' inability to vote escalated into them being assaulted and murdered, and explains how law facilitated racial barriers.

The book "Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America" by Watson is an insightful analysis of the political thinking and worldview of the Jacksonian era - more than two decades after Monroe's presidency and [...]

Those who were dissatisfied with the novel tried to accuse the author of failing to use social realism in the book and of excessive eroticism. Matthew Townes is the main character of the work, and [...]

The main topic of the book under consideration is the mindset of those who stood behind the Protestant Reformation. Since the new era brought many new opinions to the history of the Reformation, the historical [...]

Life of Cleopatra is still one of the most captivating subjects in a world's history. In the introduction to Cleopatra the author designates the main thesis of his work.

The book by Nathaniel Hawthorne titled The Scarlet Letter is considered the best work of his not in vain the contents and the topics touched upon in it raise much profound thinking and reveal the [...]

This is Lakota territory that is being occupied and Marshall tells of what was in the balance that made the Lakota struggle hard to defend it.

One of the most important subjects raised in "The Talisman" by Walter Scott is the differences between Islam and Christianity and the confrontations between the followers of these two religions in the times of King [...]

Even though the events take place in the fictional country of Asia, the historical context the authors are telling about is real. That is why they failed to win the sympathy, and the Soviet Union [...]

On the whole, the novel is an example of intersection of personal and historical aspects of life depicting an individual and his changes under the impacts of the political history of the country.

Thomas More's "Utopia," also known as "On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia," and Michel de Montaigne's essay "Of Cannibals" are two of the more prominent works on [...]

From this point, during the first stage of the fight, Brown followed the strategy of avoiding the risk in order to save the lives of the crew members, but then he accepted the risk.

The author enlightens the reader about the true and fictional stories of that time, points out the stereotypes and realities."Revolutionary Mothers" by Berkin demonstrates the silent, yet fierce power of women during the revolution, their [...]

The kite runner and the kite fighter restrict the movement of the kite in order for it to move in an orderly manner.

The book critically acclaims the role of American bombers in post WWII time when the allied forces were getting apart because of the political differences that were beginning to showcase. The problem was the food [...]

One of the big points of aggravation for King is that white people often describe living Indians as "not real Indians," due to them being different from the idealized Dead Indians.

The cause of the fire remains unknown; however, several pre-requisites before the event were discovered during the investigation, such as inadequate fire alarm system in the school, absence of fire exit, and unpreparedness of the [...]

The Souls of Black Folk is testimony to Du Bois' position as one of the leading scholars on race, religion in general, and the Black experience, in particular.

The book's research problem is the intentional failure to recognize the role of Pueblos in the precipitation of the revolt and the ultimate triumph over the Spaniards in New Mexico.

The purpose of this critical analysis is to explore the author's description of the targeted characters in the book. The emphasis of the book is that the brothers were always determined, focused, and intelligent.

However, the interpretations of slavery and obligation to pay the rent are not mutually exclusive, because the obligation to pay the rent forces humans to become slaves and have to provide their bodies for incubating [...]

The impact of dehumanization on people's attitudes to the world around them and to the people in it is depressing and terrible.

Social progress and the struggle for independence are interacting themes of the Colonial Era and the Age of Reason, which can also be found in The Journal of John Woolman.

The intimate and traumatic effects of slavery, the intersectionality of identity, and the fluidity and richness of personal experience are all powerfully and menacingly brought to light by Conde's work.

In the story of Jacqueline Navarra Rhoads, Nurses in Vietnam, one can see a dramatic transition of a nurse who not only honed her skills, transcending the level of an ordinary nurse but changed her [...]

The author's objective in writing this book was to highlight the complexity of the early American Republic and to challenge the conventional view of the Founding Brothers as a unified group.

Thus, it is important to establish how Tram develops a deep connection with the soldiers and the way the medical worker uses it to escape the harsh reality in which she is trapped.

The author gives a detailed account of his experience of surviving the Holocaust and ensures that this terrible page in history is not forgotten.

The extensive description of the journey along with the highly detailed depiction of people inhabiting America, the environment, and the related issues, can be seen as the primary advantage and strength of the letter.

The author made a series of arguments regarding the longitudinal influence of Euro-American settlements and discussed the pertinence of tree history across the State of California.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a chivalric novel written in the 14th century by an unknown author about the exploits of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's nephew, showing the spirit of chivalry and faithfulness [...]

The approaches of Douglass and Equiano to slavery and freedom are similar in their goal to achieve emancipation and to get rid of the oppressive systems that enslaved them.

"A Book of Bolivar" by Marie Arana is an exploration of Arana's ancestry, specifically, her connection to the Bolivian town of Bolivar.

The award-winning book brings the readers to the lives and experiences of Vladek Spiegelman, a holocaust survivor, and his father during the period.

An analysis of Carlos Fuentes' "Aura" and James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" reveals the significance of speaking out about the injustices that can exist in society.

The thesis of The Romans, fourth edition, is that the Roman Empire was a unique and innovative state that could adapt and conquer various terrains and people.

While the "Song of the Ice and Fire" has various scenes and storylines, the scene at the Seven Kingdoms involving the death of King Robert is the most intriguing.

Another concept discussed by both Loewen and Gonzales is the idea about the roots of domination of Europe and the West in the modern world.

In his novel, under the title Peace Shall Destroy Many, Rudy Wiebe creates a controversial depiction of the life of the Mennonite community inhabiting the countryside in Canada in 1944.

Apart from the story being arranged in chapters, the layout and approach suggest that the author has described the area of events narrated and then given the narration.

The examination of Zamperini's life and the relationship with the family and colleagues attributed to the core thematic constructs; struggle, discipline, friendship, and determination.

This makes "Coming off Age in Mississippi" an excellent choice for students interested in learning about the history of the Civil Rights Movement and literature that can be enjoyed on its own."Coming off Age in [...]

Hence, I expect to obtain an original perspective on the topics discussed in the book, such as the fight against fascism, the role of Churchill in WWII, and Orwell's influence on the independent and realistic [...]

Based on the works of Irving, Crevecoeur, and Smith, the perspective of rural life entails a number of issues that defines and shapes the regions.

Considered to be one of the essential books of Holocaust literature, it relates the story of a single Reserve Police Battalion 101 stationed in Poland and tasked with the transportation and execution of Jewish prisoners.

Another dominant element of medieval society, reflected in the poem, is the priority of the Christian worldview and its separation from the pagan and Moorish.

The selected book, therefore, explores the efforts of some of the involved stakeholders and how their contributions led to the establishment of a democratic nation.

This essay aims to provide an analysis and reaction to a quote from the book that states, "Jesus the guide, the way, the vision, and the companion of the return".

Their resistance to the Chinese oppressors demonstrates the resilience of the Vietnamese warriors, paying tribute to the rich culture and traditions of Vietnam.

The system, as a rule, is in a state of quasi-stable equilibrium with the environment, with the transformation from one state to another occurring cyclically and permanently through some limit states of the system.

The events in the Middle East in the middle of the 20th century showed a moment of crisis that changed the social structure of Iran and led to the Islamization of the country, which resulted [...]

The notion's significance for Gramsci in this specific moment, more specifically the collapse of northern-led Italian political development, is rooted in its illumination of vulnerability, of coalitions and class constituents unable to make their personal [...]

The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300 1589 is a book by Toby Green that examines conditions in Iberia and West Africa in the 14th and 15th centuries that set the [...]