This collection brings together fifteen essays from practitioners of a variety of disciplines that concern themselves with the past: not only historians, but scholars from other branches of the humanities and social sciences (including theology, art history, public history, and archival science) and natural sciences (including geology, paleontology, astronomy, and paleoanthropology).
What is the relationship between the past and the present? This essential yet seemingly straightforward question, of central importance to many fields of study, in fact yields a variety of answers, with...