1.   All historical writings, even those which deal with complicated and abstract ideas, narrate stories about people and their lives.

2.   Clarify your understanding of the main differences between narrative, description and analysis in historical writing.

3.   For you, all historical writing must be thought of as evidence.

4.   Much historical writing today looks at the lives of ordinary people, as well as at the rich and powerful.

5.   It is magnificent, but it is not the kind of historical writing that brings a dead world to life for late twentieth-century students.

6.   Among numerous works from the flowering of historical writing in the twelfth century, those of Florence of Worcester, Henry of Huntingdon and William of Malmesbury stand out.

7.   His historical writing amounts to a quest to go beyond the fragments offered by memory.

8.   In one respect, Ms. Garrett has benefited from current trends in historical writing.

9.   It also represents a high attainment in scholarship, in historical writing and in moral perceptiveness.

10.   Ken Burns is generally credited with reinventing the form, creatively using still photos, music and actors to give voice to letters and other historical writings.