Historical Facts

Having engaged in some long-form commenting below, here's a little short-form blogging on three topics of interest to this blog and its readers:1) David Lowenthal, author of the terrific The Past is a Foreign Country, thinks we are become more presentist, which is not a good thing. I'm not sure if the "we" Lowenthal has in mind is Americans or people in the twenty-first century (it's certainly