The Historical Society

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Thu May 21 20:43:45 PDT 1998



>Ex-Marxist turned neo-Confederate Eugene Genovese,

A very nicely turned phrase... very true...


>
>But, of course, The Historical Society isn't political, or conservative, or
>anything - they're just doing History. I love this paragraph from their
>mission statement:
>
>>We are pleased to announce the formation of a new and genuinely
>>"diverse" organization.

Doesn't E.P. Thompson say somewhere in "The Poverty of Theory" that you should never trust anyone who puts quotation marks around single words?

Brad DeLong



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