Last week, I drove down to Blacksburg Virginia to give a presentation about my new book, Creative Historical Thinking.

The program that invited me did a short write-up.

Here are some pictures.

How to date a picture by counting the stars on the flag. This one is a trick though – sometimes frugal Americans carried old flags in the parade!

Lawrence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy – Sterne shows his narrative lines. A good story never is straightforward, but winds up, backtracks and foreshadows.