Well, one example I can remember was about misconceptions about "slavery" (no regional or temporal qualifiers added), which focused entirely on CSA slavery as if the word itself were not a general concept applicable to the entire world (BTW, rule of thumb on how to spot a retard: he writes "slavery" with a capital "S"). That was some movie critic IIRC, so perhaps no surprise there.
Yeah he seems level-headed and just genuinely fascinated with the subject matter without major partisan bias. That always helps.One guy that deals with sensitive topics is Masaman. He is more of an Cultural Anthropologist than Historian. I do not know if he is a "professional" or not. I do know he received positive feedback from whatever ethnic/ cultural group he covers. He did pretty good job on the people of southern Louisiana (Creoles and Cajuns).
I think both wars have been done to death. While I'm glad that as long as there's a major public interest in the topic, there are also some serious historians involved in researching it and busting myths and misconceptions, I do wish those guys would be able to focus on more interesting topics instead.
Well that's easy, Lindybeige's rationale is always "British stuff is the best".@athanaric, It was intended to be a back handed compliment. Lindybeige comments on a lot of stuff... too much I would say. His expertise is in having opinions but not providing any answers. A lot of the time I am scratching my head at some of the obviously opinionated things he says, or when he gets something wrong.