Halevi expertly employs a traditional journalistic form: he isolates seven paratroopers from that "mythic moment" and reconstructs their lives, before and since, to render a complicated history intimate, human, relatable.
Along this route he took portraits of a remarkable variety of people, rendering a rich and diverse pictorial history of the region at the turn of the 20th century.
To keep track of the stable, Ms. Lu devised a grid called the "Mantris Graph," which renders a woman's dating history in stick figures.
If Republicans hold onto the majority in Congress, they will absolutely vote again to gut the Affordable Care Act, ultimately rendering people with a history of cancer uninsurable.
History would render a different judgment.
Five years ago, James Shapiro wrote "A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599," a meticulous study that rendered a slice of the standard history less implausible.
"History had rendered a verdict: The future belonged to America and to those who embraced the American way," Bacevich wrote in a 2011 Washington Post op-ed.
Paying particular attention to such important figures and organizations as W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and the NAACP, Meriwether incisively utilizes the black press, personal correspondence, and oral histories to render a remarkably nuanced and diverse portrait of African American opinion.
The Auckland Museum is an imposing edifice with some commanding displays rendering the history of the South Pacific, including an intricately carved and burnished Maori war canoe dating from 1836, and a stuffed reconstruction of a 12-foot moa, a once-native but now extinct flightless bird.
When properly done, social history should not render a work of art merely didactic or detract from its visual force.
For humans, enough has never been enough; and avaricious acquisitiveness has rendered human history a giant plundering shopping spree, one that predates the first suburban shopping mall by thousands of years...
