Writing about the past is influenced not just by the data but also by the cultural frameworks and cognitive inclinations of ...

A statement of threshold concepts in art history “So you’re taking an art history course”: A Description of Writing Characteristics Valued in Art History “This is how we write and do research in art ...

History offers no promise of an answer or a happy ending. There is not even a promise of a happy beginning: The further back we go, the less we have to go on. Worst of all, a historian cannot make ...

The consultants for the 2024-2025 Academic Year are Sarah Donovan, Tamia Haygood, Jen Motter and Elliot Warren We are advanced Ph.D. Candidates in the William & Mary History Department. We are very ...

Kelly Kerney's outstanding novel Hard Red Spring spans the entire 20th century in Guatemala's history through four vivid voices. Kerney, who spent a decade writing the book, talks about the difficult ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study explored the extent to which an 18-day history and writing curriculum intervention, taught over the course of one year, helped ...

It’s hard to believe, but one of the most important changes in the way people write in the last 50 years has been largely overlooked by historians of literature. The word processor—that is, any ...

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 ...

“The increase in the velocity of history means, among other things, that the ‘present’ becomes the ‘past’ more swiftly than ever before.” There is nothing new about man’s recording the events of his ...

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 ...