Historians spend most of their time reading. We read books. We read diaries. We read old letters. We even read pictures and maps. We do not take reading lightly. It is serious business, and as David Chioni Moore observes, a business that requires serious skill. What it means to read like a historian, and how we do it?
What does the map tell you about what the mapmaker wanted his audience to know? How does the relationship between Champlain and the Native Americans
What does the map tell you about what the mapmaker wanted his audience to know? How does the relationship between Champlain and the Native Americans in New France compare the relationship between the English and the Powhattan in Virginia? How was “freedom” experienced in early America. Who was “free”