Practicing History: Selected Essays, (Paperback)

from SeriousGrace

Unlike Nero Wolfe of West Thirty Fifth Street by William Baring-Gould, which I believe should be read after completing the Rex Stout mysteries, Practicing History should be read before Tuchman's other books. The first part of Practicing History, "The Craft," is Tuchman's way of explaining how she...

from keywestnan

If you're interested in writing history -- or just interested in how historians work -- this is a wonderful essay collection. Although Tuchman worked in the era of index cards, not laptops, she makes digging through archives and reading barely legible manuscripts sound like enthralling work.

from JBGUSA

The introduction is a "must read" for anyone seriously interested in history. She explains how writing history should be from a certain amount of hindsight. I may add to this review later, and just raised my rating from three to four stores based on my own hindsight view of the book.

from jcbrunner

This collection of essays is divided into three parts. The first and in my view the best part, based mostly upon speeches, deals with "the craft" of the historian. It offers both insights into her research and writing process and a vigorous defense of history as literature. She justly highlights ...

from tuckerresearch

Tuchman was an amazing historian and narrative writer. Her books on the First World War alone are classics. In some of her early chapters here, on history as a process and discipline, she shines. She adds some wonderful articles from her career that shine. "Perdicaris Alive or Raisuli Dead" is a ...