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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
Distillation is selection, and selection, as I am hardly the first to affirm, is the essence of writing history. It is the cardinal process of composition, the most difficult, the most delicate, the most fraught with error as well as art.
Practicing History
Barbara W. Tuchman
And all that probably was an overreaction. That’s because the world had begun fixing the Y2K problem in earnest seven years earlier. Most of the offending software had been upgraded or replaced by the time the clock rolled over midnight.
How We Beat the Y2K Bug
Matt J Weber 🦢
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