Artful History: A Practical Anthology

A collection of memorable, stirring, and eloquent historical essays, designed to help any historian write more artfully

Is there any reason that serious historical scholarship cannot receive literary expression? Isn’t it possible that the most committed empiricists and postmodernists might both achieve better results by thinking of writing as a craft, rather than just a means of packaging research? This book compiles some of the most compelling efforts to make history writing eloquent, stir...