Linguistics professor John O’Regan on history written in the present tense, and Simon Allen on other documentary annoyances Adrian Chiles’s article concerning the use of the present tense in ...
In history papers, stick to the past tense as much as possible Use the past tense when writing about people who are no longer alive and events that happened in the past. When you are quoting from a ...
One’s tense will vary depending on what one is trying to convey within their paper or section of their paper. For example, the tense may change between the methods section and the discussion section.