popular history 
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
10/12/2020
How We Lie to Ourselves About History
At its best, the "You're Wrong About" podcast transcends fact-checking and debunking to ask why so many of the stories we know are wrong, and why they persist nevertheless.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/26/2020
Re-Watching ‘The Civil War’ During the Breonna Taylor and George Floyd Protests
by Gillian Brockell
Ken Burns's Civil War documentary series sparked tremendous interest in history, but the series has a big Shelby Foote problem.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/24/19
Readers can’t get enough World War II fiction, and authors are happy to keep the books coming
You can’t throw a potato peel without hitting a new bestseller about the perils of Nazi Germany.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
2/6/19
A World War I Documentary Becomes ‘Event Cinema’
‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ breaks box-office records
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4/1/18
For Whom Should Historians Write and How?
by Walter G. Moss
Reflections of a master historian.
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SOURCE: The American Conservative
9-12-13
A.J.P. Taylor Is History
by R.J. Stove
Is the popular historian worth another look?
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SOURCE: Cosmic America
2-12-13
Keith Harris: Can Social Media Bridge the Gulf Between Academic Historians and the Public?
Keith Harris blogs at Cosmic America and holds a PhD in history from the University of Virginia.Greetings Cosmic Americans!Of course, I believe that the answer is yes. This summer, I will take part in a panel at the Civil War Institute’s annual conference at Gettysburg College with fellow Civil War bloggers Kevin Levin, Brooks Simpson, and Mark Grimsley. The so-called “gulf” is one of the principal issues that I will be addressing.Years ago, before the Internet opened the doors for real-time access to just about anyone anywhere in the world, the television historical documentary probably stood alone as the medium most likely to serve as the middle ground on which academic historians and an informed public might relate.
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