A Brief History of HistoryIn A Brief History of History, acclaimed historian Jeremy Black seeks to reinvigorate and redefine our ideas about history. The stories we tell about the past are a crucial aspect of all cultures. However, while the traditional storytelling processwhat we think of as "history" in the proper senseis useful, it is also misleading, not least because it leads to the repetition of bias and misinformation. Black suggests that the conventional idea of