This #1776 thing is absurd. @DrIbram is right. The lack of citations, primary sources, serious historiographical & scholarly apparatus = clear tell this is a political "hack-job" masquerading as an historical report. Full of distortions, lies, hubris...poorly written, ponderous. https://twitter.com/DrIbram/status/1351350153601552384
There's not that much here, so by all means please read, critique, engage for yourself https://twitter.com/DrIbram/status/1351350342114545674?s=20
I guess historical "hack job" is the right phrase, indeed, since the @washingtonpost ran with that in the title to their piece on this "report" https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1351566662907162626?s=20
Great line from @JimGrossmanAHA, noting the complete erasure of at least 70 years of scholarship, sensibilities in the "report," he remarks, "...There are no historians on this commission. Would you take your car to a garage where there’s no mechanic?”
Great THREAD 👇Members of the commission, complete lack of credentialed US historians -- you'd think, in the abstract, an enormously important rethinking of US history culminating in a major federal commission report would require field expertise, right? https://twitter.com/torstenkathke/status/1351313689530478592?s=20
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