Appleby, Hunt, Jacob, Telling The Truth About History

Abstract

This book-part intellectual history, historiographic essay, and salvo in the contemporary culture wars--attempts to rescue history from the clutches of an increasingly fashionable cultural and intellectual relativism. Though perhaps too demanding for most undergraduate students, this important book should be read by every historian whose students have argued that one opinion about the past is pretty much as valid as another, or who has encountered those who dismiss history as a form of literary diversion, the truth of which is only in the eye of the beholder.