“The present is a void,” the literary critic and historian Van Wyck Brooks wrote in 1918, “and the American writer floats in that void because the past that survives in the common mind of the present ...

Herodotos (c.490–c.425 BCE) and Thucydides (c.460– c.399 BCE) were great Hellenic / Greek historians. They wrote during the fifth century BCE, about 700 years after Homer. The time of Herodotos and ...

Ken Johnson’s new book, Publishers: Walter and Preston Walker, is a self-published memoir and scrapbook masquerading as a history book. The book lacks footnotes, adequate in-text citations, a ...

Design by Reid Graham. Buy this photo. So how are these myths kept alive? American education is somehow both the perpetuation of mythological ideals and the beginnings of revolution. This is only ...

This resource provides a brief introduction to writing in the field of History through the lens of threshold concepts. It includes: An overview of what writing characteristics are valued in History ...