Race and Culture, Religion

Going Medieval

This is, and isn’t what you think it is. If all the history you learned was in high school and college, unless you specialized, you got American History and Western Civilization. And western civilization followed a more or less direct…

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American Exceptionalism, Constitution, Education, Famous Commn People, immigration, Race and Culture

A Brief Natural History of Historians; Telling a Horse from a Mule

While people are being hornswoggled about the good intentions of journalists, they also should consider similar intentions of some historians. You see, there are the historians who report insights and facts about the past, and there are the journalists who then bake these into confections using their own…

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