[Peace-discuss] Why the history is untold

[C. G. Estabrook]

Chomsky has remarked that when he did mathematics, mathematicians wanted to know if he got the right answer: when he did history, historians wanted to know where he'd got his history PhD…

The point is illustrated by the following sophomoric hatchet-job by an establishment historian on Stone & Kuznick's (not unassailable) "The Untold History of the United States":

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/21/oliver-stone-cherry-picking-our-history/?pagination=false

--CGE