Showing posts with label david mccullough. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 29, 2005

David Greenberg: What's wrong with the David McCulloughs of history

Writing about the Bancroft Prize-winning 1973 study Time on the Cross, Novick marveled that "historians who wanted to know the basis for Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's conclusion that slaves were only moderately exploited were told that the answer was: