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I will be clear.  I don’t know John Latschar and don’t care. However, he recently won some award concerning his work with the Gettysburg Battlefield and that’s great. But what heated it up was the news about his alleged use … Continue reading →

John Keegan is a British historian and a foremost military historian. His writing examines warfare throughout history, but focuses on the 14th Century to the modern warfare of the 20th and 21st Centuries. His latest work is on the American … Continue reading →

Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation, by Ray Raphael came out earlier this year by The New Press and I am finally getting to read it and I must say I am thoroughly enjoying it. Raphael emerged in … Continue reading →

As some of you may already know I am a descendent of Col. Charles H. Weygant of the 124th NY Regiment, who were known as the “Orange Blossoms” as they were from Orange County New Jersey.  Weygant wrote a famous history … Continue reading →

The period after the War of 1812 is a challenging time as an educator; at least it is for me. The excitement of the late 18th Century creates a lull that is hard to get out of and even the … Continue reading →

Levin, uh, well, thanks for that (I guess I am McCarthy, interesting) and whatever I can do to help you out man! I have no idea why you would put my name in that post? But whatever. Anyway, do please give me … Continue reading →

Since the mid-1960s young historians tabbed “New Left Historians” entered the scene with an eye toward reshaping history. They saw all around them serious issues within the teaching of history. They favored an interpretation of the past that placed its … Continue reading →

Levin writes [link]: I don’t mind admitting that I am an enemy of the notion of ‘American Exceptionalism.’ It’s not simply that I fail to see how it applies to American history, but that it has nothing to do with … Continue reading →

The latest issue of the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s online magazine History Now centers on the studying and teaching of the American Revolution. Here’s a list of those articles: Teaching the Revolution, by Carol Berkin Inventing American Diplomacy, by R.B. Bernstein … Continue reading →

A reader posted that he believed every society to be “exceptional” and I have to say that this is the issue with declaring something exceptional. This entire issue is about cultural relativism. Which is fine if we do not “judge” … Continue reading →