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Communication, after all, is what language was invented for. If history is to share its insights with a public in need of them, it must practice communication as an art, as Gibbon did, or Parkman. History has, of course, other parts; like that other famous property, it is divisible into three: the investigative or research, the didactic or theory, and the narrated or communication. The elements that enter into communication are what I want to discuss, because history, it seems to me, is nothing if not communicated. Research provides the material, and theory a pattern of thought, but it is through communication that history is heard and understood.

Practicing History

Barbara W. Tuchman

Die Demokratien wirken ineffizient. Sind es aber nicht. Die knapp 200 Jahre der [Athener Demokratie](https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/izpb/demokratie-332/248544/grundzuege-der-athenischen-demokratie/) haben mehr Brauchbares hervor­gebracht als die 2000 Jahre Könige und Fürsten nach ihnen. Fast alle Grundlagen von Wissenschaft, Philosophie, Kunst, Politik kommen aus dieser kurzen Zeit in nur einer Stadt.

Die Goldene Zeit Des Donald Trump

Constantin Seibt

STEM skills are vital to the world we live in today, but technology alone, as Steve Jobs famously insisted, is not enough. We desperately need the expertise of those who are educated to the human, cultural, and social as well as the computational.

The Surprising Thing Google Learned About Its Employees — And What It Means for Today’s Students - The Washington Post

Valerie Straussreporter December

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