Excerpted from How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories by Alex Rosenberg. Copyright 2018, The MIT Press. It’s almost universally ...
Knopf, 848 pages, $40. Narrative history is all about plot. At its best, it marshals its facts and then marches them out to tell orderly tales. It cannot really concern itself with complicated social ...
“I myself am a victim to narrative,” says Alex Rosenberg, a Duke University philosophy professor whose new book hopes to convince readers that narratives — and especially narrative history — are ...
While exact download shares are elusive, data from Edison Research and Buzzsprout shows history's strong presence, with top history podcasts drawing substantial listenership and the genre experiencing ...
With a Foreword to the First edition by Willard B. Gatewood a Foreword to the second edition by Ben F. Johnson Your institution does not have access to this book on ...
Most people know George Lucas as the writer-director of the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as a producer of many films and series that make up the franchise’s extended universe. In recent years, ...
A Puerto Rico-born New Yorker’s relentless collecting on the African diaspora is still the core of a Harlem institution ...
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