Earlier this week, a cool Twitter thread happened, started by @_Varsha_Venkat’s query to historians about any pivotal, paradigm-shifting (for them) books they’d read
[CW: discussion of sexual assault, trauma] Ever since Socrates upbraided his followers in the Agora, there has been a strong tradition among educators to bitch…
When I took the research and methods seminar in my undergraduate History major, one of our texts was E.H. Carr’s What Is History?, a profoundly important…
Consider the following sentences: “…learning absorbed the lives of southern youth prior to the Civil War in substantial ways.” “A belief in Manifest Destiny cut…