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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Bacon and Essex
Francis Bacon owed much to the Earl of Essex. Exactly how much he owed was a matter that tortured him no end.
Bacon and Essex had known each other since boyhood. Bacon was the older and more studious. His teachers deemed him a prodigy. Ess...
11. The battle of Seattle
America’s embrace of free trade at the end of World War II inaugurated the period of broadest and most rapid economic growth in the history of the human race. The half century after 1945 saw as many as a billion people around the world lift...
Does the cosmos keep score?
Taylor Swift didn’t sing that “Karma’s a bitch.” By the time she released her 2022 song “Karma,” the phrase had become a cliche. Swift doesn’t do cliches. But the song is full of imagery amounting to the same message: What goes around, come...
Mathematicians as posers
In the old days, mathematicians had to be good with numbers. Many people suppose they still do. Mathematicians tell of meeting people at parties and being introduced as mathematicians, and having those they are introduced to respond that th...
51. Civil rights at last
The Brown decision affected education. The reasoning relied on the particular vulnerability of children. For adults a different approach would be required.
Black men and women took matters into their own hands. In Montgomery, Alabama, a bo...
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