Claire Bowers-Dingus’s Reviews > These Truths: A History of the United States > Status Update

“History isn’t only a subject; it’s also a method. My method is, generally, to let the dead speak for themselves… The work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist; it is the work of the sleuth and the storyteller, the philosopher and the scientist, the keeper of tales, the sayer of sooth, the teller of truth.”