Marie
Millerof
Connecticut, USA, writes on
I need pointers on Historiography
I HAVE been hesitant to write you because I do not know if you will actually respond to the questions I have for you. I realize that you are busy on your book tour, but I am curious about your works and would like to get a broader perspective on your ideology than what I have been recently been presented with.
I am a budding historian attending school in Connecticut and we were assigned “Lying about Hitler” by Richard
Evans, a work that you may be familiar with. Despite
Evan’s view of your work, I found myself intrigued by your method of historiography.
It is quite different from what we are taught..and I know that you do not have a formal (in the Oxford Ph.D sense) background in the field of history, you were quoted as saying that history was the only subject in school that you failed.
At any rate, you take an interesting approach and breach interesting questions about the way historical documents should be read and interpreted. I have several major research papers to write this semester and I am wondering if you can give me any pointers as to how I should approach the subject of history as you have changed my perspective of it greatly.
Thank you for your time and I hope to hear from you soon.