Item Detail
-
31584
-
1
-
3
-
English
-
The History Between the Lines
-
Utah Historical Quarterly
-
2020
-
88
-
3
-
Salt Lake City, UT
-
University of Illinois Press
-
228-241
-
"Utah historiography, in particular, has been dominated by a sort of logical positivism, a radical empiricism that forbids any speculation or conjecture-indeed, any addertion that cannot be closely documented by reference to a primary source. This essay is meant as a corrective to what I see as an imbalance in Utah historioraphy. Rather than adhering single mindedly to what a historical document definitley tells us, I encourage historians to use evidence to read between the lines and, in so doing, offer greater interpretive insight than would otherwise be available." [Author]