How to Write History

...or at least, how I write it

I grew up a block from the library. When I earned enough money from my many babysitting jobs as a teenager, I bought a subscription to Newsweek. I once wrote a paper called “The History of Denmark” for fun when I was 14, sloppily scrawling it in my loopy pseudo-cursive, before giving it to my mom “to look over.”

Look over for what? You might ask.

I’ll te…