
BONUS: Historians and Their Publics
History in Focus
The Implications of Digital Humanities Platforms for History
McNeil says that when people from a certain group write their own history, they engage in a kind of special pleading. He calls into question these kinds of histories altogether. The Cold War which demanded of US citizens a single mind and as a purpose was not the time he said for sub national groups to acquire historiography replete with oppressors living next door. And some parochial Historians heightened the chances of internal political conflict when the US could least afford it.
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