Historically interesting objects

From: Paul H.Dillon (illonph@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 07:57:35 PST

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Donald,

The historian's explanation really is circular since it defines what one
would want to know (ie What makes something historically interesting?) in
the definition of what makes history. That's the petard I'm hung from.

Paul H. Dillon

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