[Peace-discuss] Why the history is untold

[David Green]

S&K's work has serious issues due to its reliance on alleged saviors, lost opportunties, etc., rather than an emphasis on long-term structural forces. However, the "fog" referred to at the end of the article is exactly that of Cold War liberalism or liberal anti-communism, which apparently remains part of the credentials of the historical profession that has been so kind to Wilentz.
 
DG


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