Writing History: This Time It’s Personal
Storytellers Shape Our Stories. Reviewing Richard Cohen’s ‘Making History’
“When did historians stop relating facts and start all this revising of interpretations of the past?” The question was posed to Columbia University historian Eric Foner by “an eager young reporter” several years back. Foner’s answer? “Around the time of Thucydides.”
Interpretation and revision have occupied historiography since the start. Indeed, a 2009 …
