At the 2nd annual National Classical Education Symposium, we explored “The Historian’s Craft and the Art of Teaching History.” One of our informants, Dr. Wilfred McClay, was delighted by the conversation we hosted and the colleagues we invited. McClay’s new book, Land of Hope, was the general topic for his talk, as he shared with us the historian’s perspective on writing history–a discipline that unites the science of historical observations with the art of story-telling.