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Friday, November 7th, 2008
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(This is a long-overdue book review for me. I trust that, even if you've read and forgotten Confederates in the Attic, you'll bear with me as I dredge up old bones!)
Tony Horowitz, in the 1999 book, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, chronicles time spent ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
When it comes to the study of history, "revision" and "revisionism" are perhaps some of the most misunderstood terms. In many cases, for the layman, history should be constant. Once we know, for example, that "Lincoln freed the slaves," we shouldn't be told that Lincoln was a racist, or that ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Nope, this isn't a post about Christianity, although it does look at something that folks get a bit religious about.
I'm talking about the so-called "holy trinity" of historians: race, class, and gender.
Today, the dialog among professional historians revolves, in many ways, around one or more of these issues. In the ...
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