Letters to a tenured historian: imagining history as creative nonfiction – or maybe even poetry

摘要: After the most recent round of earthquakes, mudslides, and fires, when Southern California was finally abandoned, many collections Huntington Library were brought to ever-expanding Capital Archive here in Winnipeg. A friend Manuscripts Division called our attention a particular file labeled ‘Historiography: Correspondence’ – donated anonymously but compiled, we think, by professional historian an earlier time (textual evidence dates materials 2008 or 2009, just before end paper era). The strange thing about one set ‘letters’ is that they are printed continuously, on plain (rather than letterhead), as if meant be taken together read like essay. We at Journal, flipped through these moldering leaves, felt somewhat frustrated not being able see other half dialogue letters anything, one-sided, it were, though whoever them used double-sided printing then rea...