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12/3/2009 In his book, Historians Fallacies, David Hackett Fischer uses Leonard Levy’s book on Jefferson as an example of the fallacy of anachronism. When I was reading it last summer it occurred to m… more →
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Review of David Hackett Fischer's Washington's Crossing
Daniel Sauerwein wrote 4 weeks ago: Fischer, David Hackett. Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. David Hac … more →
Saga of the Strategic Aggregator
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josephfouche wrote 1 month ago: Lexington Green comments: There are also the further questions of Who is America? And who is havin … more →
Review: Champlain's Dream, by David Hackett Fischer
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joannamallory wrote 2 months ago: Champlain’s Dream, by David Hackett Fischer (Knopf Canada, 2008) I don’t read a lot of b … more →
The Most Important Man in US History-Perhaps the World
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symonsezwlky wrote 4 months ago: Gilbert Stuart's Familiar Painting of President Washington On This Date in History: On F … more →
An Expansive Idea Of Family In Colonial Virginia
Neil Aquino wrote 6 months ago: I’ve been reading Albion’s Seed—Four British Folkways In North America. This book … more →
Puritans, King, And This Blogger Agree---Evil Is An Active Force In Life
Neil Aquino wrote 6 months ago: In his Albion’s Seed–Four British Folkways In America, author David Hackett Fischer writ … more →
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severalfourmany wrote 7 months ago: 12/3/2009 In his book, Historians Fallacies, David Hackett Fischer uses Leonard Levy’s book on Jeffe … more →
David Hackett Fischer's Champlain Biography Released
mlynchhistory wrote 9 months ago: I was in a bookstore earlier today and found, to my surprise and delight, that David Hackett Fischer … more →
Disciplines
severalfourmany wrote 10 months ago: Sun Sep 7 22:43:05 2008 Is it really the job of an academic historian to teach people how to think h … more →
Taxonomy or Methodology
severalfourmany wrote 10 months ago: Sun Sep 7 12:57:29 2008 Fischer’s Historians’ Fallacies can be viewed as taxonomy of historical fall … more →
A Review: Bound Away: Virginia And The Westward Movement
reprindle wrote 10 months ago: A Review Bound Away: Virginia And The Westward Movement by David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kell … more →
mm464: Shoot back!
mudge wrote 11 months ago: © Scott Maxwell | Dreamstime.com MUDGE’s Musings It may be election year silly season, that interim … more →
A Review: Conquest Of A Continent by Madison Grant
reprindle wrote 11 months ago: A Review Conquest Of A Continent by Madison Grant Madison Grant Review by R.E. Prindle Texts: Gra … more →
Experimental History
severalfourmany wrote 11 months ago: Fri Jul 25 23:54:10 2008 I was struck by how much of Fischer’s chapter on Fallacies of Motivation in … more →
A Mistake Worth Making
severalfourmany wrote 11 months ago: Fri Jul 25 22:29:22 2008 “According to this method, which is called the “fog-of-war” technique by mi … more →
Totally
severalfourmany wrote 12 months ago: Sun Jul 20 00:09:38 2008 I enjoyed Mark E. Neely’s essay “Was the Civil War a Total War?” I especial … more →
Self-Limiting Knowledge
severalfourmany wrote 1 year ago: Thu Jul 10 17:33:27 2008 “All we know about Levy’s work is what Fischer tells us.” All we know about … more →
A Private Joke?
severalfourmany wrote 1 year ago: Wed Jul 9 08:06:54 2008 As I mentioned before, I suspect Fischer’s critique of Levy must have be a p … more →
Taxonomy of Failure
severalfourmany wrote 1 year ago: Tue Jul 8 23:18:45 2008 When Fischer published Historians’ Fallacies he was only thirty-five and I h … more →
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