Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Part I. Practice: Examples of Artful History
6. Jonathan Spence, from The Death of Woman Wang (1978) 3
7. Robert Rosenstone, from Mirror in the Shrine (1988) 16
8. Simon Schama, from Dead Certainties (1991) 28
9. Stella Tillyard, from Aristocrats (1994) 38
10. Saidiya Hartman, “Lose Your Mother” (2007) 41
11. Wendy Warren, “ ‘The Cause of Her Grief’: The Rape of a Slave in Early New England” (2007) 56
12. Stephen Berry, “The Historian as Death Investigator” (2011) 84
13. Paul A. Kramer, “The Importance of Being Turbaned” (2011) 96
14. Craig Harline, from Conversions (2011) 110
15. Amy Reading, “Benjamin Franklin’s Disciples” (2012) 123
16. Jill Lepore, “All About Erections” (2012) 140
17. Jonathan Holloway, from Jim Crow Wisdom (2013) 166
18. Part II. Theory: Making the Case for Artful History
19. James Goodman, “For the Love of Stories” (1998) 189
20. Louis P. Masur, “What It Will Take to Turn Historians into Writers” (2001) 213
21. Aaron Sachs, “Letters to a Tenured Historian: History as Creative Nonfi ction—or Maybe Even Poetry” (2010) 218
22. Jane Kamensky, “Novelties: A Historian’s Field Notes from Fiction” (2011) 256
23. John Demos, “History in the Head, History from the Heart: A Personal Minifesto” (2016) 270
24. Contributors 281
25. Credits 283