Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing shou — Gordon S. Wood
Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing shou — Gordon S. Wood
Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing shou — Gordon S. Wood
Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing shou — Gordon S. Wood
Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing shou — Gordon S. Wood
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Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

— Gordon S. Wood
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