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The End of History

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On January 15, 2023
OK, Francis Fukuyama was an idiot. But there is today an End of History and specifically, the end of the historical profession. Daniel Bessner has a good op-ed about this and it’s real my friends. When I received my Ph.D. in history in 2013, I didn’t expect that within a decade fights over history — […]
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2016 – Year of Complacency

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On January 5, 2017
[Thanks so much to Erik for his kind intro and the rest of you for your welcome messages. For the record: anti-ketchup, all the way. Don’t get me started on mayonnaise.] This we know: 2016 was awful. But now that the year has turned, it’s time to start figuring out what exactly made it so […]

Grassroots History

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On March 23, 2015

This is an incredible story of inmates at an Indiana prison doing grassroots research on the history of their own prison with assistance from a historian-volunteer. Not surprising, the findings sugges

Five Questions

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On August 28, 2013
At the Diplomat, I ruminate on some parallels… In short order, the United States may go to war against Syria in order to send a message about the use of chemical munitions. I’ve written many times in this space about the difficulty of sending clear messages in international relations; there are always concerns about how […]
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