May 27, 2005
Jefferson Lecturer Defends 'Value of History'
Crafting strong narratives and restoring value judgments to those tales are key elements to protect history's usefulness in the humanities, argued Donald Kagan in the 34th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, which he delivered here on May 12.
Noting the incursions of relativity and postmodernity into the humanities, Mr. Kagan observed that "the world we live in is a difficult place to try to make a case for the value of history."
The Jefferson lectureship, sponsored by the
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