The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the “invaluable mental power we call judgment.

As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In...

Texts on a lifeless strings of facts, but the keys to unlocking the character of human beings, people with likes and dislikes, diocese and foibles, errors and convictions. Words have texture and shape, and it...

Texts are not “processed” as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the...

History teacher Bob Alston’s “expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to...

(The historian) “was able to disapprove without being astonished. She could reject and still understand.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.