Texts in Context: Now We’re Getting Somewhen
Strange shapes move half-visibly in the mists of time; but as the grey recedes, often as not, we seem to find not a window but a mirror.
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Texts in Context: The Age of Saturn
Disentangling traditional myth, archæological fact, and anthropological speculation is a tricky business, which—in a lucky break for historians—can be left to prehistorians.
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Texts in Context: History & Its Discontents
History can be tricky, even when one is not being pursued by a rough-and-tumble college professor declaring that the artifact we are trying to study “belongs in a museum.”
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Texts in Context: The Crocodile of Chronology
Time is sometimes depicted as an ouroboros, a serpent eating its tail, a symbol of cyclical recurrence. History is like a bask of crocodiles: they are related to snakes, but have extra features that may distract us, to our peril.
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Texts in Context: How to History
“History is a pack of tricks we play on the dead,” “History is written by the victors,” “History is bunk,” etc.—these are all evaluations of history. But before we decide whose fault it is, what is history?
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Introducing Two New Series: “Sophistries” and “The Author Bank in History”
What else is there to a conversation, besides who spoke in it and about what? Surprisingly, quite a bit.
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Homer: An Author Profile
The principal literary quality of this, perhaps the most shadowy of all the figures on the CLT Author Bank, is a little ironic.
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What Does “The Great Conversation” Mean?
In fairness to Alice, judging by our recently-concluded tour of the wonder-land of ideas, we must concede that the books generally do lack pictures. Conversations, however …
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Equiano: An Author Profile
Few figures in our Author Bank have life stories as dramatic as Olaudah Equiano’s—an “interesting narrative” indeed …
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Sojourner Truth: An Author Profile
The tall, lean shape of Sojourner Truth strode tirelessly across the North, carrying the law and the gospel of freedom in its mouth.
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