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Thomas Mackaman

“I am confident that Lincoln did not order Jefferson Davis’ assassination. The claim is phony: ‘preposterous’ is le mot juste!”

John Fea   |  June 3, 2024

Did Abraham Lincoln order the assassination of Confederate president Jefferson Davis? The quote in the title comes from Oxford University Lincoln scholar Richard Carwardine. It appears at the end of Tom Mackaman‘s review of two recent attempts by Apple TV […]

World Socialist Web Site on the James Sweet “presentism” controversy

John Fea   |  August 24, 2022

Historian Thomas Mackaman, writing at the publication of the world Trotskyist movement, has some pointed words for the American Historical Association president James Sweet and his critics. Get up to speed on the controversy here and here. Here is a […]

Stanford’s Jack Rakove is the latest historian to critique the 1619 Project

John Fea   |  January 24, 2022

Tom Mackaman of the World Socialist Web Site is back with another interview. Here is a taste of his conversation with Stanford’s Jack Rakove: TM: You mentioned it before, and we will need to turn to the 1619 Project, whose […]