The Cynical Historian | Disgraced Historians : Irving, Ambrose, Foote, Bellesiles, Churchill, Goodwin, & Cinel @CynicalHistorian | Uploaded 4 weeks ago | Updated 7 minutes ago
Scandals in the history profession are now news-media spectacles, but the public used to ignore them completely. As the culture war heated up, so too did attention on these things. Since I've previously labeled certain historians as disgraced or specific acts as disgraceful on this channel, I wanted to dig into what makes them so. It's an interesting question. First you have to define what a historian even is and then how one can disgrace that label. In the process of researching that, I found some fascinating truths about how historians navigate and negotiate our professional ethics, which affect the way history is made.
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*Bibliography*
James M. Banner, The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021). amzn.to/3y0Y8er
Jeremy Black, Clio’s Battles: Historiography in Practice (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015). amzn.to/3N3bFfY
Peter Charles Hoffer, Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud - American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin (New York: Public Affairs, 2004). amzn.to/2OQJh0m
William M. Lamont, Historical Controversies and Historians (London: UCL Press, 1998). amzn.to/49SF1XY
Ron Theodore Robin, Scandals and Scoundrels: Seven Cases That Shook the Academy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). amzn.to/49Rdkip
Michael Shermer, Alex Grobma, and Arthur Hertzberg. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). amzn.to/47NtzuY
Jon Wiener, Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism Fraud and Politics in the Ivory Tower (New York: New Press, 2005). amzn.to/47yzV1M
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chapters
0:00 intro
3:18 fraud
11:17 hate
24:17 plagiarism
30:42 misconduct
33:40 avoidance
40:37 outtakes
Scandals in the history profession are now news-media spectacles, but the public used to ignore them completely. As the culture war heated up, so too did attention on these things. Since I've previously labeled certain historians as disgraced or specific acts as disgraceful on this channel, I wanted to dig into what makes them so. It's an interesting question. First you have to define what a historian even is and then how one can disgrace that label. In the process of researching that, I found some fascinating truths about how historians navigate and negotiate our professional ethics, which affect the way history is made.
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*Bibliography*
James M. Banner, The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021). amzn.to/3y0Y8er
Jeremy Black, Clio’s Battles: Historiography in Practice (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015). amzn.to/3N3bFfY
Peter Charles Hoffer, Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud - American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin (New York: Public Affairs, 2004). amzn.to/2OQJh0m
William M. Lamont, Historical Controversies and Historians (London: UCL Press, 1998). amzn.to/49SF1XY
Ron Theodore Robin, Scandals and Scoundrels: Seven Cases That Shook the Academy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). amzn.to/49Rdkip
Michael Shermer, Alex Grobma, and Arthur Hertzberg. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). amzn.to/47NtzuY
Jon Wiener, Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism Fraud and Politics in the Ivory Tower (New York: New Press, 2005). amzn.to/47yzV1M
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Connected videos
Original scholarship playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wUSSIUw8fPp1SjwFxOj3wD2
Anti-conspiracism playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wWS-H7U62SqWWEA-y2eqzoQ
2016 movie roundup: youtu.be/Ub0-yFQFyJ8
D'Souza propaganda: youtu.be/pS-dqX9dZgk
Historian Annoyances: youtu.be/4J6IPhEkYmo
Moral Panics: youtu.be/7pyiLdRWdy0
Culture War: youtu.be/tppeGYoWDxg
Lost Cause: youtu.be/4J6IPhEkYmo
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SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88
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Twitter: twitter.com/Cynical_History
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/cynicalhistorian.bsky.social
Threads: threads.net/@cynicalhistorian
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chapters
0:00 intro
3:18 fraud
11:17 hate
24:17 plagiarism
30:42 misconduct
33:40 avoidance
40:37 outtakes
