How Not To Write American History

In a never-before-published essay, Murray Rothbard points to a book on American history as an archetype of how not to write history. "The first test of a historical work then, and one that the author fails, is a richness of factual material. But the historian is more than a chronicler; he must also have a command of the significance of events, he must be able to convey to the reader the meaning and interpretation of the past. If we would be grandiloquent, we might even use Schumpeter’s term of "vision"; the histori[...]

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