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...History courses and qualifications How could the death of one man, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was assassinated on 28 June 1914, lead to the deaths of millions in a war of unprecedented scale and ferocity? This is the question at the heart of the debate on the origins of the First World War. Finding the answer to this question has exercised historians for 100 years. In...

...History of Jamaica in 1774 (which many historians acknowledge contributed extensively to the development of racial hierarchies in British consciousness), believed that Creoles, the children of African slaves ‘civilised’ by being raised in the colonies, were more intelligent than their African parents. As proof of their ‘inherent stupidity’ Long noted that ‘they...

...history in the new world. Probably for their own ignorance and their inherited Enlightenment view of Africans and African enslaved, that they did not see the Caribbean revolutions and revolutionary leaders as active progressive activists for the black liberation. They did not see that they were fighting against slavery and the capitalistic production chain of goods, such...