This post is an essay by historian Steven Mintz from his Substack. Here's a link to the original. In it, he explores the need to balance structure and agency in the way we write history. And his model for doing this is Tolstoy. This is an overview of his argument: Yet War and Peace is no exercise in … Continue reading Steven Mintz — History with a Human Soul
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 