Work in Progress Instead of a European discovery of a new world, we might better consider it as a sudden and harsh encounter between two ...

(This post began as a response to the first in a series concerning Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts (2001) on Jo...

Matthew K. Tabor said some kind words about Patriots and Peoples when he tagged me with this meme. The rules: The rules of the game ge...

In his Notes on the State of Virginia (1787), written during the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson identified slavery as a "blot...

At History is a Weapon a brief audit of the role of bias in history begins, "History isn't what happened, but a story of what happ...

I never read one book, but always have a half dozen or more going at once. I read some books in particular places, and carry others until I’...

Irreducible Bias In his presidential address to the American Historical Association in 1931, Carl Becker stated in part: Even the most disi...

Praise and Expectations At first glance John D. Daniels, “The Indian Population of North America in 1492,” William and Mary Quartery (Apr...

The colonists at Jamestown set up a test to compare their weapons to those of the Indians. Less than a month after the colonists arrived in ...

I've just discovered that the History News Network has added this site to their extensive blogroll of history weblogs. Their extensive l...

Works by Dr. Erik T. Carter Check these out: Comparative Racial Formations Removal and Dispossession