Natalie Zemon-Davis illustrates the historian’s concept of narratives perfectly. In her book Women on the Margins, she pieces together the cultural and social surroundings of seventeenth-century women in order to understand how they functioned in the world that both created them and with which they struggled. These individuals’ stories are not clear. The evidence is either obscure, porous, or both. Zemon-Davis uses the verb narrative to shape the cultural perspective around which these women and in doing so, she breathes life into them. Without her search and construction, we would understand nothing about these women and subsequently little of women during that era. In contrast, Timothy Snyder’s execution of narrative in Bloodlands is of