Davidson and Lytle identify that most people do not appreciate the challenge of doing history. History, according to Davidson and Lytle, is a painstaking construction, held together only with the help of assumptions, hypotheses, and inferences. Readers of history who push dutifully onward, unaware of all the backstage work, miss the essence of the discipline. They miss the opportunity to question and to judge their reading critically. Most of all, they miss the chance to learn how enjoyable it can be to go out and do a bit of digging themselves. Davidson and Lytle believe the problem starts with the textbooks in schools. They claim that textbooks generalize the information too much and omit the explanations and interpretations. The author
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