Category: Historiography

Please take some time to read the following essays by Jonathan Gorman and Michael Bentley about ethics and the role of the historian. Should historians be concerned with ethical issues? is there anything ethical about writing history? Comment also on whether these readings have meaning for you. Jonathan Gorman, “Historians and Their Duties” Michael Bentley,…

The purpose of this Discussion is twofold. On the one hand, this discussion asks you to observe a specific sub-genre of history that goes by the name of psychohistory, a field of history that is still with us today but which perhaps had its greatest impact in the 1970s/80s. Historians associated with this school include…