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If we look at the history of history, we can trace an evolution as it shifted, over a period of centuries, from the chronicles of wars and kings to look more realistically at other players and eventually toward all levels and members of society, all classes, minorities and both genders. In the mid to late twentieth century, German scholars developed Alltagsgeschichte, which is the study of everyday life. In a sense, it was the closest thing to a time machine, with the scholar using contemporary accounts to put him or herself back in a time to answer important historical questions. Historians of German history used Alltagsgeschichte to look, for example, at what it was like to live in the totalitarian society under Nazism. Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History and Asian Studies at Pomona College, is using wartime diaries and correspondence and postwar memoirs to create a picture of the lives of ordinary Japanese during World War II. He is also asking, were they culpable? Were they victims, as so many have argued? Or were they complicit in the execution of an aggressive and devastating war?
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