Counterpoint: people *love* fighting about history, from the Enola Gay exhibit to the 1619 Project.https://twitter.com/samhaselby/status/1439963706096504833 …
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Obviously no one outside of professional circles cares about Charles Beard vs. Richard Hofstadter or the cliometric turn in the 1970s or whatever, but fighting about the meaning of history? Practically the national pastime.
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And there were actual laws passed to ban teaching of Beardian history during WWI and later.
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