1. Michelle Dean wrote a very useful, thought-provoking twitter essay on the gap between academic history and cultural journalism
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3. Building on Michelle, I want to say something about the special epistemology you acquire while doing historical research.
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4. To be a historian -- a serious historian -- is to live in doubt, in the darkness of the past.
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@notjessewalker Yeah, it's hard to appreciate unless you personally dip into a historical controversy or do extended historical research.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@notjessewalker The further back we go, the more doubt there is. I sometimes think all of ancient history is near-mythology.
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