How Not To Write American History
March 28th, 2008 by 
bkmarcus
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In a never-before-published essay, Murray Rothbard points to a book on American history as an archetype of how not to write history. "The first test of a historical work then, and one that the author fails, is a richness of factual material. But the historian is more than a chronicler; he must also have a command of the significance of events. The historian must have a 'vision' of the meaning, of the significance, of the material he is presenting." |
