From Why Study History: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past: On complexity: Historians realize that the past is complex. Human behavior does not easily conform to our present-day social, cultural, political, religious, or economic categories. Take Thomas Jefferson for example....
Yesterday I did a post on Richard Brody’s “review” of D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation. When I wrote that post I did not know that today marks the 98th anniversary of the day that the film premiered in Los...
Richard Brody thinks that the “worst thing” about D.W. Griffith’s film “Birth of a Nation” is “how good it is.” I assigned parts of this 1915 feature film back when I taught the second half of the United States survey...
