Year: 2016
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Quote from Howard Gillman, “Bigots at the Gate: Universities Shouldn’t Duck the Fight against White Nationalism.”
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Cartoon by SMBC Comics: “Science Articles: A Guide” (to the ratio of subject matter complexity to prose complexity)
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New Yorker cartoon whose premise is that historians matter.
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I’ve been taking some time to think more about a slow-moving article on Wilhelm Groener I’ve been working on. It has received a big boost recently from the GHI’s new focus on the history of knowledge. A truism holds that generals prepare to fight the last war, not the next…
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Photograph of the full-page New York Times ad.
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A younger historian on Facebook called this picture a “Nice primary source of the late Cold War!” I don’t know what that makes me, the guy in front, but I decided to share here too.
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Quotation: David Remnick on the shock of Clinton’s defeat in 2016.