a long read on the Cold War origins of the historical consensus on the American founding, with reference to the 1619 Project, the Iraq War, 9/11, and claims on objectivity and fact: https://newrepublic.com/article/160995/consensus-approach-history.
William Hogeland
Speaker and author, often on history. Plus stage, screen, audio…
Dusting off the term “Neo-Whig” —
I’m not inside enough of the finer points of the colonial material to comment on how ESM read his sources or how you’re reading him. What I really like about your piece is how you’re pushing us to go beyond reading the standard works re. Consensus e.g. Hofstadter and Boorstin etc. I also like the fact that you give Morgan more credit as a foundational figure, credit that often falls to Bailyn re. the national paradigm. And finally if you’re right it suggests a profound and important transformation in his thought as evinced in later work like American Slavery American Freedom