Congratulations to Rice University historian Caleb McDaniel for winning a Pulitzer for Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. The committee described McDaniel’s work as “A masterfully researched meditation on reparations based on the remarkable...
Caleb McDaniel
Did Robert E. Lee *Really* Put State Over Country?
Caleb McDaniel of Rice University takes on the John Kelly’s Civil War comments from a different angle. Most historians writing for the public have focused on Kelly’s suggestion that the Civil War was caused by “the lack of an ability to...
Teaching the U.S. History Survey Course Backwards
Caleb McDaniel I admire Caleb McDaniel’s courage in the classroom. McDaniel teaches his United States Survey backwards. He starts in the present and ends in 1848. McDaniel’s approach is yet another attempt to apply Lendol Calder’s “uncoverage” model to the...