Jill Lepore’s New Yorker article came to mind again this morning:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/24/plymouth-rocked

For me, it’s a wonderfully incisive, insightful, and pointed commentary on writing good history, especially for a general audience. I’ve also been kind of following the mixed reviews for  this new book:

The review in the New York Times suggests that a major weakness of the book is how the author fails to deal effectively with history, in particular women’s history–issues most academic historians would be very familiar with.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/books/review/american-queen-by-john-oller.html

This is similar to the issue Lepore raised several years ago.

So that’s what I’m thinking about this Sunday.