Written in plain language, these accounts document heroic journeys to the vast, unknown west and north and encounters with Inuit and other native peoples (called First Nations in Canada), often on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, the great fur-trading companies.
Television cameras vividly capture the havoc of disasters, and then document the heroic efforts to rebuild what was lost.
Because of his obsession with posterity, he made sure his heroics were well documented.
There is little that could be described as classically heroic about the Presidential performance documented here, but there is much of what Obama promised voters when he sought the White House: realism and intelligence.
Much of what the world knew about Chechnya came from her and her colleagues at Memorial, a heroic group which started by documenting Stalinist crimes but continued to trace their modern-day consequences, especially in the Caucasus.Her murder made few headlines in Russia, which has long been deaf to her findings or deaths such as hers.
Commissioned in the late 1930s by none other than Gen. Francisco Franco and appropriately Social Realist in style, they are fascinating documents, full of muscular, heroic looking figures, even though they depict the misdeeds of the Republican opposition.
"The F.S.B.," Professor Kramer said, "isn't releasing documents that show the K.G.B.'s predecessor, the N.K.V.D., and its role in the terror of the 1930's, but it will release documents that show N.K.V.D. agents' heroic actions".
"The documents clearly show that Khomeini was less heroic, and far craftier, behind the scenes," Fattahi said.
Despite heroic dissemination of evidence-based teaching practices and their documented improvement on student learning (Ebert-May et al., 1997; Derting and Ebert-May, 2010; Crouch and Mazur, 2001; Udovic et al., 2002; Knight and Wood, 2005; Freeman et al., 2007), university science faculty members have been slow to adopt these practices.
