For those of you who are coin collectors or who have a fascination with our seventeenth president, I’m here to tell you that today is the day that the Andrew Johnson $1 coin is available for purchase … in rolls of $25, and for a bit more than that, of course.
Day: February 23, 2011
Glimpses at Midweek
Sometimes we overlook important stuff.
Somehow not too many people paid attention to the fact that recently Continue reading
Greatest Hits from Civil Warriors: Personal Politics and Professional Practice
(a different version of this post originally appeared on Civil Warriors on November 20, 2009)
You hear it all the time … at least I do. Critics of this historian or that historian claim that the historian in question is pushing a personal political agenda. Their professional work reflects that personal political agenda: if anything, their scholarship is nothing more than their politics refracted through a flawed prism of the past.
