History is constantly changing—partly because new evidence comes to light —but equally important, because each age asks new questions about the past. On the evening of Tuesday, March 23, best-selling historian Margaret MacMillan, this year's Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Visiting Writer, will share insights into her writing and examine the challenges of writing history today.

In her talk, MacMillan will draw on her experiences as a writer to ask what is good history and what is bad? And she will warn that while history is essential to understand our world, it can also be dangerously misused.
Hailed by readers and critics alike for her gift for bringing history to life, Margaret MacMillan is one of the most respected and best-selling historians of our time.

MacMillan's landmark book about the peace process following the First World War—Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World—won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. It also garnered the Duff Cooper Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for history.  
Join Margaret MacMillan for as she shares insights into her writing and discusses the challenges of "Writing History Today".
http://www.ucalgary.ca/markinflanagan/events