>>Hmmmm, any guesses as to how many of these "prominent historians" are 1) northerners or 2) liberal cademic-weenies or 3) northern, liberal academic-weenies?? > Actually, they're taking a Marxist line now, led by James McPherson.
Dr. James Mcpherson of Princeton University is a Civil War scholar and Pulitzer Prize winning historian. He was appointed in 1991 by the United States Senate to the Civil War Sites Advisory Commision. He has written more than a dozen books about the Civil War. He is a serious and credible authority on the issues surrounding the Civil War.
Do you have any evidence to back up your claim (of marxist motivations) against Mcpherson?
You must have missed this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/710706/posts
James McPherson really is a Marxist, and it shows in his interests, in his associations, and in his historiographical POV. Marxist scholarship emphasizes a number of themes, and vanguard-led "liberation" movements is one of them. The act of having liberated, in this formula, is a moral prop for the existence and incumbency of the vanguard elite.
Of course, there's an internal contradiction here. Marxism wages war on elites relying on "natural law" for their privileges, and then establishes another elite -- the Russian Communist Party, most obviously -- in the name of egalitarianism, and the People's proprietorship of the State.
Dr. James Mcpherson of Princeton University is a Civil War scholar and Pulitzer Prize winning historian. He was appointed in 1991 by the United States Senate to the Civil War Sites Advisory Commision. The Senate was dominated by the DemonRats back then...which senators put up McPherson's name to the panel? I'd be interested, if you happen to know.
Latschar, of course, was appointed by DIRTXPOTUS.