I feel like this reading basically justifies the reason why we have been studying disasters this semester. Bergman explains to us how disasters have become relevant in the field of history, once being thought as uncontrollable acts of nature but now linked to human behaviors and being relevant to certain themes come up in history such as progressivism, sensationalism, and spirituality. Justinrod717<\/a>\u00a0describes the Biel’s book American Disasters as a compilation of works that describe and give theories based on and around numerous disasters throughout U.S. history. Disasters are essential because they offer unique opportunities to apply old theories to something new in order bring something different fresh out of traditional topics, especially in the topic of historiography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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