It was a mistake, he declared, to treat history as if it ought to be practised on the model of the natural sciences.
It has since become the commonplace preference of historians to treat British history in just this fashion.
In Part 2, he treats history as one part of each person's soul and thereby a major influence individuals' actions.
This was unofficial history, rather than a commission, and treated ecclesiastical history as politics.
For us to ignore it and treat history as beginning on Feb. 2 is not going to work.
Treating economic history as a discrete academic discipline has been a contentious issue for many years.
Plutarch said biography let him "treat history as a mirror", because he could help his own life by looking at others.
His paintings often treated Mexican history, landscape, and legends.
We all thought one could treat history like one experiments in physics.
Lowellian, too, is her desire to treat history as something more than a stage setting, to make it the medium of thought and feeling.