On Narratives

Sunday, January 4, 2009: 9:40 AM
Mercury Ballroom (Hilton New York)
Pier M. Larson , Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Pier Larson will discuss how to approach archival sources creatively and critically and how historians think about the relationship between sources and narrative. He will also talk about how to plan for research trips and offer some recommendations from his own experiences working on various topics in African history.