I haven’t listened yet, but I have read the introduction. History is Watching sounds like the equally cringeworthy Follow the Science. The current fashionable talking point for the Eloi. What happened to The End of History?
It's the Whig interpretation of history they try to push on the rest of us. Now, instead of historians, we have politicians using it for their subscribed narratives.
Sometimes the losers do get to write the histories that take for a very long while. The Daughters of the Confederacy were absolutely crucial in popularizing the "Lost Cause" mythos in the 1890s up until the 1930s and excising the centrality of slavery as the cause of the Civil War, and even going so far as to rename it "The War Between the States", which it absolutely was not. That interpretation was tacitly accepted even by Northern (including doctrinaire economic Marxist historians) well into the 1970s and 1980s.
Find one or two tapestries you like and hang them on the wall.
I haven’t listened yet, but I have read the introduction. History is Watching sounds like the equally cringeworthy Follow the Science. The current fashionable talking point for the Eloi. What happened to The End of History?
It's the Whig interpretation of history they try to push on the rest of us. Now, instead of historians, we have politicians using it for their subscribed narratives.
Wilkes and Liberty, I say!
Sometimes the losers do get to write the histories that take for a very long while. The Daughters of the Confederacy were absolutely crucial in popularizing the "Lost Cause" mythos in the 1890s up until the 1930s and excising the centrality of slavery as the cause of the Civil War, and even going so far as to rename it "The War Between the States", which it absolutely was not. That interpretation was tacitly accepted even by Northern (including doctrinaire economic Marxist historians) well into the 1970s and 1980s.