From memory to archive, women’s writing creates new ways to narrate the past

Using literature, memoir, and ethnography, women’s stories challenge male-dominated narratives; they reclaim history by ...
Miami University

Writing in Art History

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 ...
Hyperallergic

A History of Writing, from Hieroglyphs to Squiggles

Schoolchild’s homework in Greek on a wax tablet, Egypt, 2nd century AD (copyright the British Library) LONDON — A 2,000-year-old wax tablet bears inscriptions of the Greek homework of an Egyptian ...
The Economist

When is it too soon to write history?

The signs, at first, were small. On December 15th 2019 mentions of “pneumonia” and the Chinese word feidian (SARS) started to spread on WeChat, a Chinese social-media app, multiplying faster than any ...
Miami University

Writing in History

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 Atlantic

Detachment and the Writing of History

THE witty remark of Dumas, that Lamartine had raised history to the dignity of romance, would have appealed to Thomas Buckle, who was much occupied with reducing it to the level of a science. Critics ...