Ear­li­er this week, Eric Gart­man posit­ed how and why his­to­ry can and should be both infor­ma­tion­al and inter­est­ing. He is blog­ging here all week as part of the…

Eric Gart­man is the author of Return from Zion: The His­to­ry of Mod­ern Israel. He will be blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series on The…