If K-12 teachers present the past primarily through the lens of the present, the public may lose faith in their ability to address history at all. Americans are losing faith in the ability of public ...

Liberal comedian Bill Maher roasted the woke concept of "presentism," where historical figures and events are judged in the prism of the present – further arguing against the oft-claimed leftist ...

A brief history of historians’ chatter (“Two Cheers for Presentism” The Chronicle Review, August 23), may be instructive. David A. Bell, the Princeton history-professor son of a Harvard sociology ...

Andrew Marr is telling the history of the world in eight hour-long episodes of television. He puts this work in line with a series of “big histories,” including Kenneth Clark’s Civilization and E. H.

The latest drama over academic politics is unfolding in the American Historical Association. A column by association president James H. Sweet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has ...

True historians deplore the application of current values to the words and deeds of historical figures. They call such sloppy and lazy thinking "presentism." Persons with such a view of history tend ...

In late November 1864, Col. John Chivington led a regiment of Colorado militia volunteers, 675 men strong, in the massacre and mutilation of between 70 and 163 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, mostly ...

Having journeyed to journalism via academics and a PhD from the University of Florida, Renuka Bisht now has the great pleasure of working with the editorial page of TOI. As impressed as the next ...

American college campuses are apparently natural hosts for a variety of intellectual viruses. Now comes the latest: presentism, the idea that we should apply the modern world’s moral sensibilities to ...

Maria Stavrinaki, Dada Presentism (image courtesy of Stanford University Press) Dada Presentism: An Essay on Art and History is an exposé of the conflict between conscious and unconscious forces. The ...