A one-page thesis abstract of the paper will be due 1 week before the paper’s due date. The abstract will not be graded but failure of submission will result in a half-letter grade drop of the paper (e.g. from A to A-).
Topic: Is time on our (historians’) side? Based on how authors like Fasolt and Danto have written about the relationship between time, language, and historical writing, formulate your own argument about what it means to write about the past at the present.