History tells us who we are and how we came to be who we are. Like history, genealogy studies people. It’s a field of study that can tell us who we are in a more exact sense by showing us how our ancestral lines connect from one generation to the...
How do historians write about the people, places, and events they’ve studied in historical sources? We continue our Doing History: How Historians Work series by investigating how historians write about history. Our guide for this investigation is...
History is about people, but what do we know about the people behind history’s scenes? Who are the people who tell us what we know about our past? And how do they come to know what they know? Today, we begin our year-long “Doing History” series with...