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Category Archives: History
Too Much Evidence: David Garrow and the Limits of Public Memory
David Jeffries Garrow was born on May 11, 1953, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He graduated magna cum laude from Wesleyan University in 1975 and earned his Ph.D. in history from Duke University in 1981. An undergraduate honors thesis on Martin … Continue reading
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The Jewish History Of The Consensus Interpretation Of American History
The first Jews who rose to prominence within History departments did not venture into Jewish history. They never attempted to define a Jewish perspective but they did develop the consensus interpretation of American history that put a premium on values. … Continue reading
Alliance Theory & The Custodianship Question
Custodianship Question in America Australia, New Zealand Europe Asia Canada, Latin America, Africa Different groups may have different interests, but all groups want custody of their own sacred stories. After Jews consolidated their position in the American History profession in … Continue reading
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Decoding Orthodoxy’s Response To Historicism
Historicism says ideas, texts, and norms are products of time and place. Orthodox Judaism has produced several durable responses. These are the main ones that actually govern institutions and people. 1. Revelation above history Torah is divine and binding regardless … Continue reading
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That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would interpret That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession by Peter Novick not as a technical history of historiography but as a story about how an elite alliance built a powerful status … Continue reading
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Prof: ‘Why I’m Leaving Harvard’
James Hankins, a professor of History at Harvard, writes: * In 2021, however, I was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that “that” (meaning admitting a white male) was “not happening this year.” In the same year … Continue reading
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
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
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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