A Critique of the Modern Historiographical Method

A Critique of the Modern Historiographical Method
By Rod O'BarrMay 31, 2023

Recent surveys clearly demonstrate why “Civil War” history is so skewed to support Leftist ideology. Leftist ideologues dominate the modern history discipline by a 33:1 margin. Gone is any semblance of balance so necessary to the free exchange of ideas. Gone is the opportunity for reasoned evaluation of all viewpoints regarding secession and war. Gone is the very opportunity for truth to win the day as a product of critical evaluation. The Southern half of that evidence can never even see the light of day in any semblance of fair consideration.

That the “Civil War” is now made a convenient poster war with a singular focus on the interminable “oppression” of “white supremacy” is no surprise. This attendant issue that existed on the periphery of the 19th century conflict is now made the central theme because it is fashionable as a politically expedient exercise of crass presentism.

History students are no longer taught how to think. They are taught what to think. Much evidence is spun, suppressed or dismissed as “lost cause myth” – the catch phrase employed to avoid any serious consideration of what the South said and demonstrated was its motive in secession and war. The Confederacy is villainized, creating a rallying focal point by which students are more easily manipulated to become, not scholarly historians, but rather social justice warriors. Naïve young minds are manipulated into narrowly viewing human history through a neo-Marxist lens as a great struggle between “oppressors and oppressed.” Generations of history students have, for the past sixty years, been craftily molded into a constituency for the advancement of a political agenda. How successful the powerful in academia have been in herding students into universities that are now, for the most part, no more than Leftist ideological echo chambers. A place where propaganda that’s custom-made for ideological preferences can be craftily administered through a fanciful manipulation of history.

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