Uncritical acceptance

Harry Smeltzer wrote to say how pleased he is with his reading in Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills. "There's some really fascinating (to me) stuff in the intro, a scathing indictment of the uncritical acceptance by historians of prior historians' assessments..."

"Uncritical acceptance by historians of prior historians' assessments," is what we do best in Civil War history - we are tops in that department.

Harry's working up a post on the subject.