Today's entry in "anyone gets to claim to be a historian" apparently. I sometimes wonder what it would be like if people respected and appreciated expertise.

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"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

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I just… people who say stuff like this just don’t like to research. Which is fine, but don’t stay in a field where research is the main gig When you shortcut the research, you lose the sense of the history, you lose the context. By immersing yourself in it, you get a deep understanding of the frame

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You work too hard not to give us your money. https://store.theonion.com/collections/sweatshirts-and-hoodies

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Repeatedly--and openly--trying to bribe voters? We live in a breathtakingly corrupt time.

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