Finding employment that is within our field of research often feels like an insurmountable endeavor that we never quite complete. Because the truth is, finding work as a historian is difficult. This reality or potential future should not be news to you. Throughout graduate school, our professors–and let us be real, our family and friends, too–warned us of the daunting and unforgiving landscape that is the job market of the historian. And after a quick
A good book review is a historian’s best friend. In that spirit, The Life of a Historian offers our review of… Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Random House, 1998. Affiliate Disclosure The Life of the Historian: A Book Review of Pauline Maier’s American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence stands as a testament to American democracy and the right to ‘Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of