how I hope so

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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