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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Who burned Columbia?
This entry is longer than usual, to allow the evidence to be presented.
Thomas Osborn was an artillery officer in the Union army of William Sherman that captured Columbia, South Carolina, in February 1865. In his diary for February 17 Osbo...
The burden of conscience
Erasmus liked Thomas More. “”Did nature ever invent anything kinder, sweeter or more harmonious than the character of Thomas More?” wrote the Dutch humanist. Erasmus considered the English statesman and writer a kindred spirit. “We are ‘tog...
The belly of the monster
“In the hall there were very nearly 300 people of various races and ages,” the Pinkerton agent secretly employed by the Spanish government reported to his paymasters. The hall was in New York City, and the audience consisted mostly of Cuban...
Adoption of agriculture
Jared Diamond, an American scientist, called it “the worst mistake in the history of the human race.” He was trying to provoke. Yet he made a strong case that the transition that is generally seen as the crucial first step toward civilizati...
27. War power
Article I of the Constitution assigns to Congress the authority to declare. Congress exercised this authority in 1812, declaring war against Britain.
James Madison, president at the time and of course the chief architect of the Constitutio...
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