Sentence examples for objects of history from inspiring English sources

But what's wrong with objects of art and objects of history staying the same?

Museums are both purveyors of historical objects and themselves objects of history, shaped by the fashions of their day.

History teaching before 1994 was there to "bolster up Afrikaner nationalism, and black South Africans were merely the objects of history.

This holds that the history of the Jewish diaspora has been the record of a people who were the objects of history - who were not in control of their own fate - and that only with Zionism did Jews once more regain primary control of their own destiny.

Self-consciously aligning himself with a long tradition of British radical dissenters, starting with the Levelers and Ranters, and continuing through Thomas Paine and William Morris to the present day, Thompson sought to demonstrate that society's downtrodden should not be seen, or see themselves, as helpless and passive objects of history.

South Carolina, and, as well, the nine states that allow Confederate license plates (and Mississippi, whose state flag itself includes the Stars and Bars), must, at last, consign these symbols to museums, where they belong as objects of history, not as living symbols.

For the object of history is the very opposite of that of tragedy.

But the company has a heavy debt burden from being the object of history's largest leveraged buyout, and interest expenses caused it to report large losses.

It carries a triptych of meanings: it is a transitional object (a substitute for a person, using the old Freudian terminology) as well as an object of mourning and memory (a memento of a person who has died) and, finally, an object of history and exchange; in other words, a gift.

By realizing that it is the subject-object of history, the proletariat discovers itself to be the subject of the process of social reproduction (see 1923a: 181; Jay 1984: 107f), not an object of contemplation.

The subject Hegel desperately tried to find could only be discovered by Marx it is the proletariat to which Lukács assigns the role of the "subject-object" of history (1923a: 149).