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Having learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of information [...N]ewspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events themselves. —Robert Darnton, “The Library in the New Age”, The New York Review of Books (12 Jun
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The last 3 times the US armed forces went into combat for a campaign without air superiority were: The Philippines 1942 (largest surrender of US forces outside of the US Civil War) Guadalcanal 1942-1943, (First months of the battle, US forces dont have air supremacy and have to hold on)
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[I]n response to complaints on the right that the crimes of right-leaning authoritarian regimes are somehow over-taught and left-leaning authoritarian regimes are under-taught [...] I should note that I took my Russian and Chinese history courses at the University of Massachusetts located in the beautiful People’s Republic of Amherst;
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One hundred and twenty-five years ago, one of my great-great-grandfathers decided to disappear. He succeeded so completely that no one in the family ever knew what became of him. Albert Gallatin Stuart was born in 1865 in Kaufman County, Texas, just southeast of Dallas. He married my great-great-grandmother in 1887,
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For every 100 West Virginians, there were… …277 Virginians in 1870 …245 Virginians in 1880 …217 Virginians in 1890 …193 Virginians in 1900 …169 Virginians in 1910 …158 Virginians in 1920 …140 Virginians in 1930 …141 Virginians in 1940 …165 Virginians in 1950 …213 Virginians in 1960 …267 Virginians in
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I started watching this video for one reason, and ended up being fascinated by it for another reason altogether. In the 1960s, white conservatives tended to believe that white people were racially superior to others, while white liberals tended to believe (or at least say they believed) that people of
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At Harvard Law School in the 1950s, I noticed the case books on property and contract law did not include commercial cases over slave 'ownership.' In pre-Civil War generations, the courts were full of litigation--slave families were valuable 'property' whose exploitation led to contractual conflicts between
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The view that the great cathedral of history is being built brick by brick by historians, some of them filling gaps and forming pillars, while the majority of them add their small bricks in the form of monographs […] is not entirely a wrong one–but we must recognize that the
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About one-fifth of the front of the Topps Baseball 2018 Series Two baseball card pack is coated in a shiny turquoise color. Generations of my ancestors rarely (if ever) saw a color like that. Its existence in the world was limited to the jewelry and paintings owned by the wealthy
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Yet what any individual in the Frankish Empire [of the 8th century AD] got to read was often a matter of chance. The full range of classical literature was by no means still available in its entirety. Much had disappeared and had been lost forever. Because of lack of knowledge
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The most impressive application of Ibn Khaldun's approach is his historical and sociological elaboration of the cyclical pattern of rise, peak, and decline. If a society becomes a leading civilization or even the dominant culture in a region, according to Ibn Khaldun the peak of this civilization is
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"Before cameras, educated, well-to-do travelers had learned to sketch so that they could draw what they saw on their trips, in the same way that, before phonograph recordings, bourgeois families listened to music by making it themselves at home, playing the piano and singing in the parlor. Cameras made