1. Michelle Dean wrote a very useful, thought-provoking twitter essay on the gap between academic history and cultural journalism
7. In responding to Michelle, @yeselson brought up historians who make strong claims: Eric Foner, Linda Gordon, Eugene Genovese
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@HeerJeet They were arbitrary--could have named dozens of others--but yeah.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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8. But the strong claims of those historians are battle-tested: have survived the rigorous self-criticism of historical method
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9. To understand how battle-tested a historian's work is compare Genovese the historian with Genovese the polemicist.
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