Famed "Star Trek" actor William Shatner decried the erasure of history and rewriting of literature in fiery posts on Wednesday. "It’s called Presentism and it was used wreak havoc on history several ...

Liberal comedian Bill Maher roasted the woke concept of "presentism," where historical figures and events are judged in the prism of the present – further arguing against the oft-claimed leftist ...

A brief history of historians’ chatter (“Two Cheers for Presentism” The Chronicle Review, August 23), may be instructive. David A. Bell, the Princeton history-professor son of a Harvard sociology ...

L ast week James Sweet, president of the American Historical Association, sparked an academic firestorm by devoting his monthly column for the association newsletter to a critique of presentism. For ...

In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that neither the future nor the past exists. The opposite of presentism is 'eternalism', which is a belief in things that are past and things that ...

American college campuses are apparently natural hosts for a variety of intellectual viruses. Now comes the latest: presentism, the idea that we should apply the modern world’s moral sensibilities to ...

In late November 1864, Col. John Chivington led a regiment of Colorado militia volunteers, 675 men strong, in the massacre and mutilation of between 70 and 163 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, mostly ...

The outrage began with the calls for removal of the Confederate Flag and exploded to assaults on John Calhoun, Woodrow Wilson, and most recently on Thomas Jefferson. My purpose here is not necessarily ...

If K-12 teachers present the past primarily through the lens of the present, the public may lose faith in their ability to address history at all. Americans are losing faith in the ability of public ...

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