A User's Guide to History
H. W. BrandsEverybody uses history, some better than others. This User's Guide offers suggestions on how the past shapes the present, and how the present shapes what we think about the past.
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One damn thing after another
“Homer’s epos, it is remarked, is like a bas-relief sculpture: it does not conclude, but merely ceases.”
This is the first line of the last chapter of Thomas Carlyle’s monumental history of the French Revolution. Carlyle followed Homer’s e...
Top-heavy spending
It has always been the case that rich folks spend more money than poor folks. That’s what being rich is about. But lately the rich folks’ share of spending has grown. Today the top tenth of American earners are responsible for half of Ameri...
What is self-government, anyway?
America is working itself into understandable excitement at the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. We celebrate twenty-five decades of American self-government. It is a great achievement.
But what, exactly, are we celebr...
Annales: Bloch and Febvre
Midway between the world wars a pair of French historians launched a new journal they called Annales d’histoire économique et sociale (Annals of economic and social history). In the front of the first issue, Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre pri...
33. Lincoln for the Union
Six other slave states followed South Carolina’s secessionist example. Their arguments were similar.
James Buchanan, the lame duck president, rejected the arguments of the seceding seven but took no action against them. The crisis—the sore...
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