By Caliesha Harris This post is part of the Tomorrow’s Historians series. The world always seems to be ending. This past summer, as wildfire smoke hung over much of Ontario, I tried my best to shelve my climate anxiety only to end up reading four-hundred-year-old sources describing similar experiences. No matter where I looked, the world seemed on the brink… Read more »
Although the lingo in modern scholarship may be less offensive than my tour guide a couple of weeks ago, the message in Merrell’s essay is that similar trends continue among professional historians. Despite broader inclusion of Native people as a subject studied by historians, North American history remains a discipline anchored in a European tradition.
