ABSTRACT
A popular television program in the 1960s reenacted historical events, such as the trial of Socrates or the assassination of Julius Caesar, as they would have appeared if reported by Walter Cronkite in the modern manner. The most, important historical events do not, of course, happen dramatically. The changes now in process are comparable with those that came with the transition from gathering to the domestication of plants, from scavenging carcasses left by other animals to hunting and trapping, from nomadic to fixed communities, from agricultural to industrial economies. It takes a wide array of researchers on many fronts to keep abreast of the fast-breaking "news." One of the most successful of the tract writers was Hannah More, a contemporary of Mary Wollstonecraft's, who condemned "the infamous doctrine of the Rights of Women".
