A statement of threshold concepts in art history “So you’re taking an art history course”: A Description of Writing Characteristics Valued in Art History “This is how we write and do research in art ...

Kelly Kerney's outstanding novel Hard Red Spring spans the entire 20th century in Guatemala's history through four vivid voices. Kerney, who spent a decade writing the book, talks about the difficult ...

Schoolchild’s homework in Greek on a wax tablet, Egypt, 2nd century AD (copyright the British Library) LONDON — A 2,000-year-old wax tablet bears inscriptions of the Greek homework of an Egyptian ...

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History offers no promise of an answer or a happy ending. There is not even a promise of a happy beginning: The further back we go, the less we have to go on. Worst of all, a historian cannot make ...

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In the summer of 1866, as Leo Tolstoy prepared for his serialized novel War and Peace to be published as a single volume, he wrote to illustrator Mikhail Bashilov, hoping to commission drawings for ...

This guide provides a brief introduction to writing in the field of art history through the lens of threshold concepts. It includes: A statement of threshold concepts in art history “So you’re taking ...

Herodotos (c.490–c.425 BCE) and Thucydides (c.460– c.399 BCE) were great Hellenic / Greek historians. They wrote during the fifth century BCE, about 700 years after Homer. The time of Herodotos and ...

History is an argument about the past. Your thesis statement should reflect that. Make sure your thesis is precise, relevant to the prompt, and something you can defend with historical evidence.