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Source: The Baffler

9/7/2021

History Won't Judge: Joan C. Scott and Passing the Buck

by Kirsten Weld

Poor Clio, the muse of history, has been tasked with the passing of retrospective judgments that we in the here-and-now are unwilling to make. Unfortunately, that's not how history works.

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History Won't Judge: Joan C. Scott and Passing the Buck

by Kirsten Weld