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David Armitage

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  • Break the History Addiction

    July 4 and the perils of celebrating America’s past.
    by David Armitage via New York Daily News on July 3, 2022
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    In Defense of Presentism

    The past does not speak to us; we speak for the past.
    by David Armitage via Oxford University Press on January 13, 2022

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Beyond the End of History

Historians' prohibition on 'presentism' crumbles under the weight of events.
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 14, 2020
Portrait of Edward Gibbon

Bonfire of the Humanities

Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.
by Samuel Moyn via The Nation on January 21, 2015
Andrea Casali: The Personification of History Writing on the Back of Time, early 1760s

Ego-Histories

The more that historians make their own experiences an explicit part of their work, the harder it will become to let the sources speak clearly.
by David A. Bell via New York Review of Books on June 1, 2023
Protestors on the streets during the Algerian War.

The Counterinsurgent Imagination

A new book examines military manuals as a genre to understand what armed counter-revolutionaries think of as the right way to do what they do.
by Tom Furse, Joseph Mackay via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on January 6, 2023

Why the History of the Vast Early America Matters Today

There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.
by Karin Wulf via Aeon on July 15, 2021
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