Should professional historians write for the general public? If so, who is the “public” they are trying to reach? And when historians do write for the public how do they manage to make their work readable and accessible without sacrificing […]
popular history
Should American historians seek to emulate Howard Zinn’s approach to popular history?
As some of you know, I am working on a three-volume project, geared to a general reading audience, on evangelicals and politics in the twentieth-first century. Sometimes I don’t know if I am doing journalism or writing history, but I […]
Steven Mintz on popular history
A thoughtful piece from a veteran American historian. Here is the University of Houston’s Steven Mintz at Inside Higher Ed: No one owns history. The key question in evaluating any historical work, whether by a professional or a nonspecialist, is quality and […]