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Author(s): Allen C. Guelzo
ISBN(s): 9781598035087, 1598035088
Edition: First
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Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1598035088 
ISBN 13: 9781598035087
Author: Allen C Guelzo

How do historians create their histories? What role do the historian’s viewpoint and method play in what we accept as truth? Answer these and other questions as you go inside the minds of our greatest historians and explore the idea of written history as it has shaped humanity’s story over 2,000 years.

These 24 intriguing lectures introduce you to the seminal thinking of historians such as: Herodotus, considered by many the first history writer, who replaced the poetic imagination of Homer with istorieis, or inquiry; Livy, the author of a 142-volume didactic history of Rome that spanned three continents and seven centuries; David Hume, who framed English history with an evolutionary vision of economic, political, and intellectual freedom; and Edward Gibbon, whose monumental Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire forged a complex picture of epic collapse and decay.

From the dramatic and military exploits of Xenophon and Thucydides in ancient Greece to Macaulay’s dynamic career in the 19th century, from the bloody era of Christian Reformation to the revolutions of the Enlightenment, Professor Guelzo takes you into the trenches with great minds throughout history.

And beneath the surface of written history, you’ll examine the processes that create accepted views of historical events, and you’ll uncover the ways in which understanding how history is written is crucial to understanding historical events themselves. The journey rewards you with an unforgettable insight into our human heritage and the chance to look with discerning eyes at human events in their deeper meanings.

Making History How Great Historians Interpret the Past 1st Table of contents:

The Monk Outside the Monastery

The Dawning of History: Herodotus or Thucydides?

The Glory That Was Rome: From Polybius to Suetonius

History and Myth: Creating the Bible

Closing Down the Past: The Muslim View of History

The Medieval Chroniclers: Creating a Nation’s Story

The Accidental Historian: Niccolò Machiavelli

William Shakespeare: The Drama of History

Zozo and the Marionette Infidel: M. Voltaire and Mr. Gibbon

Announcing a Discipline: From Macaulay to von Ranke

Once Upon a Time: Novelists as Past Masters

America Against Itself: Versions of the Civil War

Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax: The Annales School

The Red Historians: From Karl Marx to Eric Hobsbawm

History from the Inside: From Julius Caesar to Ulysses S. Grant

The Spinning of History: Churchill and His Factory

Mighty Opposites: Wars Inside the Academy

The Wounded Historian: John Keegan and the Military Mind

Herstory: From Ban Zhao to Mary Beard

Who Tells Our Story? From George W. Williams to Ibram X. Kendi

Bad History: Truth-Telling vs. “Patriotism”

The First Draft: Journalists and the Recent Past

On Television: From A.J.P. Taylor to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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