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...Schama's colleagues at Columbia say his breadth of knowledge and interests will be an important asset to their department...
...Schama plans to teach a year-long course on environmental history, which he hopes will contribute to his next book on landscape and memory...
...Story-telling [is] an extremely serious matter and [has] at least as much intellectual toughness and dignity and complexity as delivery of point one, two, and three," Schama says, his forehead furrowing. "[In my writing] the meat of the history is very often in story-telling...
Storytelling is one of the keys to understanding historical detail, Schama says. "When I was growing up," he recalls, "I was taught history would die on the page if it wasn't written not only for other professional working stiffs but also for the public...
...Schama practices what he preaches. His books, The Embarrassment of Riches (1987), Citizens (1989) and Dead Certainties (1991), have all been critically acclaimed bestsellers--narrative histories dealing with European cultural and intellectual trends...