I recently stumbled across this clip about a particular witness to the JFK assassination, and it made me think about how reputable historians ply their craft. Take a moment to watch it: Josiah Thompson on the Umbrella Man. Mr. Thompson is getting at something profound here: If you have any fact, which you think is…
Month: February 2014
World War I: Not just trench warfare
One of the conventional ideas about World War I (especially the Western Front), is that technology outpaced tactics. We wrap up the war’s problems this way: Commanders had a pre-machine-gun idea of how battles worked, and they were now living in a post-machine-gun world. In Andrew Weist’s Haig: The Evolution of a Commander, one paragraph…
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