James Sweet 
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
3/7/2023
As Historians Face More Political Pressure, the James Sweet Controversy Won't Die
A New Yorker reporter asks the outgoing AHA president what pushed him to write a controversial column, and other historians weigh in on what the discipline's relationship to politics should be (and whether historians themselves have the power to decide).
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
10/30/2022
Is There a New History War?
by David Frum
David Frum asks what's behind the summer's AHA dustup.
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SOURCE: Quillette
9/13/2022
James Sweet Shouldn't Have Apologized for the Truth
by Jeffrey Herf
"Those who repress inconvenient facts or produce fictitious evidence to nourish a politically convenient story are simply not historians—they are activists or propagandists."
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