In History as Literature, Theodore Roosevelt asks whether history is a science Private or Broken Links
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. He agrees that historians must do their due diligence in careful and painstaking researching. They must be steeped in science, which tells us about humanhuman
's place in nature. But, he argues, a historian needs a good imagination to put the facts together into a coherent unity, and such works as these are the ones that leave a mark. Beyond being a good writer, "the greatest historian should also be a great moralist."