History and Politics

July 14, 2009

It’s sad, really. Nearly every Historian I’ve ever known has a political agenda.  While this is not necessarily a bad thing, it is much more common than it is with, say, Mathematicians.  The problem isn’t that these professionals have an opinion; everyone is entitled to theirs.  The problem is that most people assume that Historians [...]

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Hitler, Stalin, and the American Perspective

July 7, 2009

I was reminded a while back, by an article from Terry Teachout at Commentary Magazine, about just how brutal Stalin really was. Now, as I’ve said before, 20th Century history is not my thing, and that historians, in my view, are best served studying time periods prior to their own age.  Historians, like everyone else, can [...]

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American Providential History

February 22, 2009

American history is, in the view of some, not the same as the history of any other nation. Instead, American history is the history of Providence. It is the history of how the divine hand has interacted with the human element to create a nation that is, in many ways, unique among the nations of [...]

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