1. Michelle Dean wrote a very useful, thought-provoking twitter essay on the gap between academic history and cultural journalism
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5. To do serious history means not just thinking about evidence we have from the past, but what is missing, the silences, the lies.
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6. To work with an awareness of how little gets preserved from the past doesn't mean you can't craft narratives but it does make you careful
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@HeerJeet This is comforting as it's exactly how I feel while working on my masters thesis.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet I keep thinking I understand this intellectually, and then I probe something I thought was settled & learn it all over again. -
@notjessewalker Yeah, it's hard to appreciate unless you personally dip into a historical controversy or do extended historical research. - Show replies
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