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Having quoted briefly from Gordon S. Wood’s Washington Post essay on writing history, I want to add his further analysis of why so many professional/academic historians write books that don’t appeal to the public as many narrative histories do. I...
Yesterday I discussed the appeal of narrative history that offers the same ingredients as a good fictional story: protagonists, goals, obstacles, resolution through internal forces. The protagonist can be a historical figure (or several) trying to...
Last month leading early American historian Gordon S. Wood wrote an essay for the Washington Post on the state of history writing today. He said: Academic historians have not forgotten how to tell a story. Instead, most of them have purposefully chosen...
Norman Desmarais, a librarian at Providence College, has announced the publication of The Guide to the American Revolutionary War in Canada and New England: Battles, Raids, and Skirmishes. He says it: covers 403 battles, raids and skirmishes of the...
I started investigating Dr. Benjamin Church’s last years because I’d made an error in an old posting about him, and wanted to be more accurate. And I admit to hoping to find new information to make up for the lapse.
In that respect, I think I...
