Category Archives: History

Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers (1986)

According to Grok: “Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers” by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May is a seminal work that explores how historical understanding can improve decision-making processes in both government and business. Here’s a … Continue reading

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Discourse, Reality, and the Culture of Combat

Historian John A. Lynn wrote in 2005: Historians need to differentiate between the reality of war and die way in which a culture conceives of war: between the concrete and the conceptual. At die conceptual pole, the term ‘discourse’ signifies … Continue reading

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Historian Matthew Ghobrial On Russia Vs Ukraine (3-29-22)

00:00 PhD student Matthew Ghobrial, https://twitter.com/GhobrialMatthew 01:00 Matt’s Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9z6CwgycPjUbOLElkLuHjQ 02:00 What are Russia’s legitimate interests in Ukraine? 04:00 Why did Putin invade Ukraine? 06:00 What would a peace agreement look like? 08:00 Hyperbolic rhetoric about Putin 09:00 When … Continue reading

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In Defense Of History

Richard Evans writes in this 1999 book: * Virtually all historians, for example, assumed that the nation-state was the primary object of historical study. The emerging historical profession was dominated by the view that the historian’s task lay principally in … Continue reading

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Jews in the American Historical Profession (8-4-21)

Peter Novick writes in his 1988 book: * Selig Perlman, a professor of economics at Wisconsin, is said to have regularly summoned Jewish graduate students in history to his office and warned them, in a deep Yiddish accent, that “History … Continue reading

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