MWP III Rhetorical Precis for two articles

Precis for article “Native Historians Write Back: The Indigenous Paradigm in American Indian Historiography” by Susan Miller.

In the article “Native Historians Write Back: The Indigenous Paradigm in American Indian Historiography”, Susan Miller illustrates how the subject of interpreting history through the concept of historiography needs to consider historical accounts as presented through indigenous peoples as relevant to the way historical accounts have been presented through previous historians.  Miller takes into account how historical accounts of North America have come down through the present from the time of such explorers as Columbus as to not take into consideration the accounts of indigeous peoples that were initial inhabitants.  The author takes what is seen as a discrimatory approach to the concept of how intial historical accounts would not consider the indigenous peoples in order to illustrate how all historical accounts of all peoples are important as to preserve the past in a manner that preserves culture as well as accuracy in such accounts.  The authors audience is seen as being historians interested in giving complete accounts of all peoples in the subject of North American history, as well as those interested in the subject of historiography as to minimize bias and indifference in such accounts through the examination of the accounts of past historians.

Precis for article “Exceptional History? The origins of Historiography in the United States.” by Eileen Ka-May Cheng

In an article entitled “Exceptional History? The origins of Historiography in the United States.” The author Eileen Ka-May Cheng attempts to explore how the concept of historiography would be initially developed amongst US historians.  The author defines the term historiography and how it came about  through three early American historians that attempted to examine in their own ways the interpretation of US history through earlier accounts.  The author considers the methods of each mentioned historian in order to illustrate the various logic as to how historians interpreted the subject of US History as preserved in earlier written accounts.  Cheng’s audience appears to be those inidivudals interested in how earlier historians deduced the subject of US History as seen through the concept of a historiographical approach that considers all aspects of presented historical accounts concerning the precise history of the United States.