They just don’t write ‘em like they use to…
I am a lifelong textbook connoisseur. I snagged my first teacher’s manual in second grade and never looked back. By middle school, I...
How – What it Means to Teach History – Has Changed
History the Way We Used to Learn It: “We were told that history is a large body of indisputable facts about people, places, laws, wars,...
What is “History”?
“As a discipline history encourages the sort of deep thinking and reading literacy required in our increasingly complex world. As s...
On the Moral Dimension of History
“[T]he great lessons of history will not fail to make themselves felt by any attentive reader… We greatly mistake the [purpose] of the...
On How (and Why) the World Historian May Achieve Impartiality
Editorial Note: There has been a long-running debate amongst historians regarding whether impartiality is desirable, or even possible, in...
On the Rational Ideal of the World Historian
“The desire to be free from all prejudice in the judgment of historical facts is, then, the keynote of all our philosophy of historical...
