I’ve had this sense for as long as I remember that most academic history published after 1945 is largely b.s., with some honorable exceptions (Christopher Lasch, Eugene Genovese) but heaps and heaps of garbage, eg Eric Foner, that Levin creature at Yale. As a matter of fact, an Ivy League imprint is a reliable indicator of stupidity between the covers.
I’ve had this sense for as long as I remember that most academic history published after 1945 is largely b.s., with some honorable exceptions (Christopher Lasch, Eugene Genovese) but heaps and heaps of garbage, eg Eric Foner, that Levin creature at Yale. As a matter of fact, an Ivy League imprint is a reliable indicator of stupidity between the covers.