In 1994 a cluster of historians gat...

In 1994 a cluster of historians gathered in Pasadena at a Narrating Histories Workshop. Among the topics discussed were the temptation of fiction; professional standards; whether the past can be narrated at all; and the question of the self in topic The one that inspired the greatest in quantity impassioned argument was the last. Susan Crane, a historian of nineteenth-century German preservationist agriculture remarked:

Subjectivity is usually reserv for the introduction of a history where emotional and fiscal transgressions are acknowledged. The use of the first-person voice is always a conscious narrative