Concerning The Writing Of History
Address delivered at the Meeting of the American Historical Association in Detroit, December, 1900.
CONCERNING THE WRITING OF HISTORY
Called on at the last moment, owing to the illness of Mr. Eggleston, to take the place of one whose absence can never be fully compensated, I present to you a paper on the writing of history. It is in a way a continuance of my inaugural address before this association one year ago, and despite the continuity of the thought I have endeavored to treat the same subject from a different point of view. While going over the same ground and drawing my lessons from the same historians, it is new matter so far as I have had the honor to present it to the American Historical Association.
A historian, to make a mark, must show some originality somewhere in his work. The originality may be in a method of investigation； it may be in the use of some hitherto inaccessible or unprinted material； it may be in the employment

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