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Linford D. Fisher

Latest articles by Linford D. Fisher

Your Hitler analogy is wrong, and other complaints from a history professor
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I get it — history can be boring. But the laziest use of it is to make facile comparisons between then and now, this person and that.

By Linford D. Fisher