Blogs about: Using And Abusing History

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Abusing History in Support of Gun Rights2 comments

Mark Stoneman wrote 2 months ago: Whatever merits there might or might not be to the case gun rights advocates make in favor of more g … more →

Tags: Popular Culture, factcheck.org, Gun rights, History

Blogging and Myth-Busting4 comments

Mark Stoneman wrote 12 months ago: Kevin Levin of Civil War Memory has posted good material to his academic blog under the category, Th … more →

Tags: Civil War, digital history, History, historians, academic blogs, Scholarship, Black Confederates, Weary Clyburn

Authors of Interrogation Handbook Abuse Their Sources5 comments

Mark Stoneman wrote 1 year ago: In a piece called “Mind Games: Remembering Brainwashing” from today’s New York Tim … more →

Tags: Cold War, War-on-terror, Guantanamo Bay, Brainwashing

Ignorance or Deliberate Abuse?4 comments

Mark Stoneman wrote 1 year ago: I can’t decide whether the White House is deliberately insulting our intelligence with Bush … more →

Tags: Teaching, Politics, History, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, John McCain, Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement, Kevin Levin

When Google Gets It Wrong17 comments

Mark Stoneman wrote 1 year ago: My wife is reading a crime story I got for Christmas and read over the holidays, Christian von Ditfu … more →

Tags: Blogging, Wikipedia, Google, Holocaust Denial, digital history, History, SEO, reliability of sources, Internet

Historians and Politics2 comments

Mark Stoneman wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I wrote about the present in this blog about my work with the past. What possible justific … more →

Tags: Iraq War, Politics, History, War and Society, Aha!, American Historical Association, historians, Current Events

Good Old Stalin17 comments

Mark Stoneman wrote 1 year ago: History can be used to justify all manner of circumstances in the present. Want to justify an author … more →

Tags: Memory, Russia, History, Historiography, USSR, tradition-building, Stalin, textbooks


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