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Isaac Asimov, John Updike, and John Hersey changed their writing habits to adapt to word processors, according to the first literary historian of the technology.
There is nothing new about man’s recording the events of his own time. Indeed, this is probably the way the writing of history began; and if classical authority were required for contemporary ...
Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers – Giles Milton, Simon Sebag ...
I. History as Inquiry. If writing is actually thinking, it’s best integrated into history-social-studies classes when connected to specific ideas, events, and people at the center of what is ...
Jack Rakove, William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science, emeritus, at Stanford University, is a leading scholar of the American Revolution ...
View a sample syllabus for HST 206: Introduction to Historical Inquiry. Howe Writing Across the Curriculum Programs The mission of the Howe Writing Across the Curriculum Programs is to ensure that all ...
Kerby Miller [Photo by Kerby Miller ]. And then when I was a history graduate student at Berkeley, I was preparing to write a doctoral dissertation comparing slavery and race relations in the US ...
Just like the Eveready rabbit, Howard Finley keeps going and going and going. Mr. Finley is 93. Teacher, historian, genealogist, author, board member, trustee, board director and mentor, he said ...