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  • Two Hundred Years Is a Long Time (for a historian), or, What Should Historians Write About?

Two Hundred Years Is a Long Time (for a historian), or, What Should Historians Write About?

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

7:30

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Lecturer

James O'Donnell

Professor of Classics and Provost, Georgetown University

What should history be "about"? The long-term movement of DNA-carrying peoples and their economic development, or the crises of a given president or prime minister. Ancient history and its narratives shaped much of what we think of as history, so this lecture will use Greco-Roman examples to think through these issues and show that the title of the lecture, though seemingly an obvious fact, is actually a daring proposition for a historian to utter.

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