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December 27, 2006
Presidential History
I'm about willing to hear historians speculate on the Gerald Ford legacy or Gerald Ford as a president now - after all, it's actually a legacy rather than current events once someone is dead. How could one evaluate Jimmy Carter without his most recent publication, for instance? If there's not some distinction between history and journalism I don't want any part of the former.
Though from my point of view most American history is current events, and talk of presidential i.q. and presidential rankings are the intellectual equivalent of squabbling in the departmental mail room. That's a medievalist for you, though.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at December 27, 2006 10:32 AM