This is far and away the smartest & most honest conservative response to the 1619 project. I hope we see more like this.https://twitter.com/philipaklein/status/1163853616370860032 …
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yes, also a very good point. But 2008 seems a suspect point where suddenly all became reliable.
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I wasn't the one that made 2008 a marker of trustworthiness. I will say that history is a cumulative discipline where newer works absorb the critiques made of older ones.
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I don't say there's anything wrong with post-2008 scholarship. I say that it's possible that the authors I mention are engaging in some presentism. Some of that is inevitable in history-writing, and I think it might be happening in this case, and we should be on guard against it.
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For reference, Eric Foner’s “Reconstruction” came out in 1989
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and this was untenable, at least in a university setting, by the 1970's or so, wouldn't you agree?
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