Adam Shapiro, Author at CONTINGENT

Historians As Parents: Introduction

I can tell that they find it both fascinating and frustrating to have a historian as a parent.

A single choice can branch out to infinite realities.

In both versions of this question, the assumption is that there’s a pure history out there somewhere, perhaps with answers in the appendix.

Some called it the first evolution trial.

It was the only dark chocolate my grandmother liked.

The scanned image looked sharper than the framed photograph at my grandmother’s house. And only now did I notice a strange detail.