C. Vann Woodward, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and a contributing editor to The New Republic, is the leading liberal historian of the South. For three decades his encyclopedic knowledge and detailed historical investigations have produced works that have set the pattern for subsequent historians. Woodward accepts the title “liberal,” if somewhat...
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April 1, 1987April 21, 2022Reviews
Republican Vices
For some 73 years, since November 1914, The New Republic has been the self-constructed soapbox for the best ideas and insights proffered by the liberal intellectual community (which may explain why the magazine is always so thin). Some of the most important names in American liberalism have graced the magazine’s pages as it has laid...
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March 1, 1987July 26, 2022View
‘Timing Is the Thing’
Which is more important: to know history well or to use what history you know in making important decisions? With some hesitation (since one is a trained historian), the authors of Thinking in Time decide for the latter. In a comparison between Harry Truman’s and George Marshall’s ability to learn from history, the authors side...