Limerick
Everyone should be introduced to a very influential historian by the name of Patricia Nelson Limerick. Limerick writes about the history of the American West. Limerick’s writing and ideas are extremely original and unique. ... Patricia Nelson Limerick talks about how Western history is significantly complex. ... “Western history continues to thrive, I will look back at certain passages and shudder at my shortsightedness”(Limerick 117). This statement comes straight from Limerick herself. ... Limerick reaches the conclusion that this subject doesn’t have much sequential form.Limerick elaborates on this and explains why historians have so much trouble writing about this history. It shows through Limerick’s writing that she is somewhat aggravated that people don’t seem to know as much about Western history as they should.