While scholars in the second half of the twentieth century generally recognize Catherine Macaulay as the first English woman historian, it was not her sex but her politics that made her an important figure in the eighteenth century. As one of the last...

NOT BY FACT ALONE Essays on the Writing And Reading of History By John Clive Knopf 334 pp. $27.50 THE FIRST volume of John Clive's biography of Macaulay, The Shaping of the Historian, was published in 1973 to general acclaim. Unfortunately we still...

With The New Way Things Work, illustrator-author David Macaulay has 17 books to his credit. Many show how things are built. Macaulay, 52, lives and works in Bristol, Rhode Island. How can you know so much about so many disciplines and devices? Well,...

In the following essay, one of the earliest critical commentaries on Macaulay's life and work, Donnelly argues that despite the many flaws in the historian's writings, Macaulay should be remembered as one of the great proponents of political liberty.

In the following essay, Mazzucco-Than argues that the principal fame Macaulay's History of England garnered in the eighteenth century as well as its subsequent neglect during the past two centuries is due to a single cause—-a continuing emphasis on the gender of the historian herself.

In the following essay, Withey argues that Macaulay's History of England can be best understood by considering the author's social, political, and religious idealism, and notes that Macaulay considered historical analysis to be the best means for conveying the possibility of human political, moral, and institutional perfection.