Mark Byrnes's Facing Backwards
"A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards." -- Karl Kraus
Mark S. Byrnes is Chair and Professor of History at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC.
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Feb 2, 2018
The Nunes Memo, “Bias,” and the Skills of the Historian
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Aug 16, 2017
The Right Words
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May 27, 2017
Why Trump's Snub of NATO Matters
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Jan 19, 2017
The Era of Bad Feelings?
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Dec 11, 2016
What Was 2016 About? Who We Are and What Values We Cherish.
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Jul 30, 2016
Will Khizr Khan be Donald Trump’s Joseph Welch?
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Jun 7, 2016
“We Find the Republican Party Busily Chewing on Itself”
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May 24, 2016
Trump Isn't a Fascist. He Has Fascist Instincts.
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Mar 28, 2016
Orrin Hatch's Embarrassing New York Times Op-Ed
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Feb 15, 2016
Ted Cruz's Phony Supreme Court "Tradition"
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Dec 8, 2015
The American Reaction to Refugees Since 1924
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Nov 22, 2015
The American Reaction to Refugees, 1848-1924
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Nov 15, 2015
The American Reaction to Refugees in the Early Republic
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Sep 20, 2015
Ben Carson's "Know-Nothing" Attitude Toward Islam
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Jun 23, 2015
This Flag Needs to Go Down--So Does the Lie it Represents
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Jun 16, 2015
It's Ok to Celebrate Magna Carta
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Apr 8, 2015
"Unconditional Surrender" in Iran
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Feb 1, 2015
"There Was a Right Side and a Wrong Side": Art and Historical Memory
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Dec 14, 2014
Dick Cheney’s David Frost Moment
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Oct 19, 2014
Can Obama Do in Iraq What Nixon and Ford Couldn't in Vietnam?
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