Yet while much good historical scholarship is argumentative, some excellent work is not overtly so. This is particularly the case with history that seeks primarily to evoke the texture of a specific time and place.
I continue to struggle with assembling an understandable text. I really don’t want to write something that has an overt outline laid on top, but right now my writing suffers from a lack of an argument (overt or covert). I wonder how one gets to that covert argument? By passing through the overt or by avoiding it altogether?
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