Sentences with phrase «modern historians question»

This may be true, but modern historians question the claim.

Not exact matches

The historian may still question the soundness of southern leadership, but he will remember that men whose opportunity in the Modern World was one of producing its raw cotton did not deliberately choose to do so on plantations with Negro slavery.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

In Pragmatism, the first of Nesbit's Pre-Occupations series of essay compilations, Nesbit outlines the questions modern art historians address to make sense of the changes in art and life during the early 20th century.