Re:Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh has died at ...
by samizdis on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:35PM
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Interesting, certainly, but tricky: who gets to write the history books?
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Re:Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh has died at ...
by ggm on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:16PM
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AskHistorians, in due course. They disagree violently amongst themselves offstage but will fight alongside each other to stop anyone else saying the truth in public. You can be a primary source: They decide its validity.
Mostly I do now believe History needs 50+ years to get distance from the personal. I like Martin Gilbert and Anthony Beevor immensely. I've had both Russian, and American historian-aligned-people take them down gloriously. I don't think either Gilbert or Beevor are seen in good standing, all the time by people in Moscow and Harvard.