I was too elliptical about this in a previous tweet, so to be clear: "extremist views" as characterization of 1619 is just wrong: the project is very mainstream both in scholarship it drew on & its essentially nationalist framework.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1396163956994199557 …
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Replying to @ArtVand43302074
Thank you for your historiographical intervention importer/exporter.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I mean, I trust the great historians of my age. If you don't, that's cool.
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Replying to @ArtVand43302074
History is a discipline of many thousands of people, not a handful of "greats"
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Just like baseball is a sport of many thousands of players. Unfortunately, the reality of merit makes it so that we only know the names of a few.
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Replying to @ArtVand43302074
No, history is not like baseball. It's a collaborative intellectual enterprise not a game of winners & losers.
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