My big American history thought is that Charles Beard was more right than people are comfortable with and a lot of the new emphasis on the self-interest of the revolutionaries is the return of the repressed.
But that sort of thing is inevitable -- Novick is right on this.
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Pretty weird to say people “constantly” look to the past to ground present commitments, and then take Jeet to task for saying it’s “inevitable”. Like, what are you two going on about? Seems to be confusion btw philosophical & psychological uses of term contingent.
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