I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis
Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the building of cities.
(n.) The art of employment of an historiographer.
The distinction between "paid labor" and "housework" implied in working-class men's yearning for the domestic ideal persisted in later-nineteenth-century analyses of women's unpaid labor and was event...
Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating protagonists, heroes, pace, and plot. For this reason, the di...