@ephraim_quin @HeerJeet because it is so often used to delegitimate voices who are very much expert on the past and needed
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Replying to @AdelePerry
@AdelePerry@ephraim_quin Exactly. I think it's better to say Black is a very bad historian than to invoke professional credentials.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@ephraim_quin yes, though I don't think it is just credentialism here -- Black has an MA in History from McGill, right? --2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdelePerry
@AdelePerry@ephraim_quin Lots of cases where popular historians were right and academic historians wrong: i.e. Jefferson & Sally Hemmings2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@ephraim_quin absolutely. Professionalism has not and will not serve alternative histories.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdelePerry
@HeerJeet@ephraim_quin but given this, how remarkable that CB gets that mantle, and who doesn't.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdelePerry
@AdelePerry@ephraim_quin Partially because term "historian" is ambiguous and covers host of different activities.6 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@AdelePerry CB thus gets to be called a historian, feted in all sorts of locales,and subject to serious (if critical) reviews2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ephraim_quin
@ephraim_quin@AdelePerry In some ways, this is all a result of Ramsay Cook giving Black a hard time at MA defense.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@AdelePerry to quote CB against himself, he may be supercilious (as he described Cook), but that's too Freudian by far, isn't it?3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@ephraim_quin @AdelePerry There's a lot of revolt against the father in Black. Also true of his FDR book
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