writing — History News Network

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education

Jan 29, 2021

Scholars Talk Writing: Louis P. Masur

The Rutgers professor discusses the process of writing and the need for historical training to include multiple modes of writing and narrative.

Source: Washington Post

Apr 19, 2020

Covid-19 is Forcing Us to Dwell in Uncertainty. History Can Help.

by Sari Altschuler

Writings on long-ago cholera outbreaks contain lessons in navigating unknowns.

Source: The New York Times

Apr 6, 2020

The Pandemic Is Not an Excuse to Exploit Writers

by Douglas Preston

Internet Archive’s “National Emergency Library” is meant to benefit consumers during the coronavirus crisis. Authors everywhere are losing.

Jan 20, 2020

George Orwell, 70 Years Later

by John Rodden

Would the visionary author of Nineteen Eighty-Four have ever imagined that George Orwell might become the most important writer since Shakespeare and the most influential writer who ever lived?

Source: American Association for State and Local History

Aug 21, 2019

The Way We Do the Things We Do: Making History-Making Visible

by Benjamin Filene

Three museums in Stockholm demonstrate how can historians “pull back the curtain” and reveal the process of history-making in action.

Source: Twin Cities Pioneer Press

May 5, 2019

Revise, revise, revise. That’s how history works

by Jeff Kolnick

Revisionism is not something to be feared or rejected, nor is it something to be celebrated or revered. It is what historians do, and we do it all the time.

Feb 24, 2019

The Many Joys of Writing History

by Walter G. Moss

It is the chance to stand back and observe the whole human story, with all its tragedies and comedies, and like Shakespeare think “What a piece of work is man!”