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historical method

The James Sweet/AHA blowup

John Fea   |  August 21, 2022

I commented on Sweet’s piece here and here (including a long comment below the post). I thought it was well-done and a necessary reminder that the American Historical Association is made up of many historians, including those who are not […]

Should people examine communities to which they do not belong?

John Fea   |  May 6, 2022

At the inaugural meeting of the New University Conference, an organization of New Left academics, radical historian Staughton Lynd called academics to live in solidarity with their subjects. As he put it, “to hope that upper-middle class white professors can […]