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Alcoholic Drinks, Scholarship

Alcohol “constitutes an especially revealing focus of analysis for anthropologists and historians”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 April 2021
In brief, alcoholic drinks are not simply reducible to a uniform chemical substance with...
Tagged alcoholo, anthropologists, anthropology, historians, History |
Living

“Convenience as we now know it is a product of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when labor-saving devices for the home were invented and marketed”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 March 2018
Convenience as we now know it is a product of the late 19th and...
Tagged conformity, convenience, History, industrial efficiency, life, living |
America, War, World War II

“We entered the war against Germany in 1941, but not because they were Nazis…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 August 2017
We entered the war against Germany in 1941, but not because they were Nazis....
Tagged History, Nazis, World War II |
Uncategorized

“We imagine the villains of history as cunning strategists, brilliant masterminds of horror”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 June 2017
We imagine the villains of history as cunning strategists, brilliant masterminds of horror. This...
Tagged Adolph Hitler, History, Joseph Stalin |
Uncategorized

“All history is retrospective”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 January 2017
All history is retrospective. We’re always looking at the past through the lens of...
Tagged History |
Europe

“The Shoah, it seems, has come to be read for portents and interpretation as much as for history itself”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 December 2015
The Shoah, it seems, has come to be read for portents and interpretation as...
Tagged History, Holocaust, Shoah |
Politics in America

“Magna Carta’s unusual legacy in the United States is a matter of political history”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 July 2015
Magna Carta’s unusual legacy in the United States is a matter of political history....
Tagged History, Jill Lepore, Magna Carta, Political History, Politics, United States of America |
Historiography

“To contrast history writing and storytelling as polar opposites is thus to distort the nature of both types of literature”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 July 2015
Fraenkel’s approach would seem to create an unbridgeable chasm between historical writing and other...
Tagged History, History writing, Storytelling |
Scholarship

“When a version of a myth is told (orally or in writing), it is always an account of the past in intimate connection with some conclusion to be drawn in the present experience of the person recounting the tale”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 June 2015
When a version of a myth is told (orally or in writing), it is...
Tagged History, Myth |
Scholarship

“There is often a tension between the quest for historical truth and the desire of communities of faith to pass on their religious message”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 June 2015
There is often a tension between the quest for historical truth and the desire...
Tagged History, Marc Shapiro, Scholarship, Tradition |
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