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We need more monetary historians and historians of economic thought and fewer model-builders.
In this case, it seems that Netanyahu may have gone too far; after more than a week of condemnation, including from Israeli historians, he was forced to retract the statement.
Indeed, the American people have preempted the historians, rebuking Bush by electing a Democratic Congress in November 2006.
The collapse of the USSR and the Communist Party opened new horizons – and almost all archives – for historians.
Although today’s new political reality in Russia is creating its own new myths and falsifications, this has not extended to historians’ work.
It is a moment that historians must seize.
Her last chance to influence what historians write about her will be to choose the moment and manner of her exit from the political stage.
Historians like Paul David and technology experts like Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock, and Chad Syverson argue that it has always taken time for major breakthroughs (like the steam engine, electricity, or the automobile) to yield net economic gains, because businesses, buildings, and infrastructure need to be re-configured.
Foremost among the new generation of revisionist historians was Niall Ferguson of Harvard University, whose television series, based on his new book Civilization: The West and the Rest, has just started showing in Britain.
In other words, we may be reverting to that cyclical pattern that historians assumed to be axiomatic before the seemingly irreversible rise of the West implanted in them a view of linear progress toward greater reason and freedom.
The Sources of Russian ConductNEW YORK – No set amount of time must pass before journalism gives way to history, but normally historians write with the advantage of perspective that reflects the passage of years, decades, or even centuries.
Historians can make a credible case that periods of maximalist over-commitment have done more damage to America’s place in the world than periods of retrenchment.
The scale of China’s defeat stunned Deng, and historians often credit the PLA’s miserable performance with forcing him to take a hard look at China’s moribund Maoist system.
In any case, one would not expect prize committees or historians to judge leaders solely by quantitative criteria.
And, like other hellish recent regional conflicts, such as those in Bosnia (to which Christopher was referring) and Rwanda, future historians will emphasize a crucial feature of the Syria conflict: the spectacular diplomatic failures that enabled it to escalate.
In normal times, history is left to historians and economic-policy debate relies on models and econometric estimates.
Years from now, historians will likely label the opening years of the twenty-first century the “Age of Terrorism.”
However serious those crises turn out to be, historians a century from now will likely despair at our shortsightedness.
While this was a worthy goal, historians will point out, it was far from the only imperative.
Just why will be a matter of debate among historians for decades to come.
As Obama approaches the end of his first year in office, he must know that Afghanistan will be the major test according to which future historians will grade his foreign policy.
Good historians encourage us to be honest about ourselves.
Otherwise, future historians will ask why Europeans at the beginning of the twenty-first century chose division and international marginalization rather than unity and global relevance.
Most historians would agree that Roosevelt’s success as a leader rested more on his good nature than on his analytical skills.
Will future historians look back at Trump’s presidency as a temporary aberration or a major turning point in America’s role in the world?
Historians and others who venture to break the silence are lambasted as traitors to the black cause.
Economic historians, meanwhile, argued that future textbooks would embed analysis of recent experience in the longer-term historical record.
This dual decline was a subject frequently discussed by historians across the continent.
Many historians have argued that German society under Hitler was somehow uniquely evil.
Future historians will, no doubt, scurry to investigate the antecedents of these migrants from Europe and why the British people were willing to sacrifice so much to restrain them from coming.
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