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History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is incomplete without recognition of its debt to its companions in the humane and social sciences. In Clio among the Muses, noted historiographer Peter Charles Hoffer relates the story of this remarkable collaboration. Hoffer traces history's complicated partnership with its coordinate disciplines of religion, philosophy, the social sciences, literature, biography, policy studies, and law. As in ancient days, when Clio was preeminent among the other eight muses, so today, the author argues that history can and should claim pride of place in the study of past human action and thought.

Peter Charles Hoffer is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He has taught history at Harvard, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Brooklyn College, and the University of Georgia and specializes in historical methods, early American history, and legal history. He has written or co-written more than three dozen books and edited another twenty, including The Historian’s Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time.