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Award-winning historian,Yale. Early US politics/violence; A.Ham ✏️The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War

Sep 17, 2020, 6 tweets

WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN HISTORY?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Oh good.

We're seeing "a coordinated attack on our heroes."

"Wise people learn from the past.
Unwise people bury the past."

But somehow, denying the negative is not burying the past.
Right.

So....people who are acknowledging the past are "rewriting" it.

And there is no place for learning or progress or change.

Right.

I'm not going to make it through this, folks.

Loud and pompous BS with a heavy dose of projection.

My head will explode.

Mary Grabar is now talking....

Attacking Howard Zinn, I assume.
As "fake history" -- ooh, and plagiarized too.

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