[SIGCIS-Members] What the Public Thinks About Historical Thinking

Great piece in the current issue of AHA Perspectives on History by James Grossman on public views of history and historians. I especially liked his counter-argument to people who use ‘revisionism’ as a term of disparagement, viz. "My friend and colleague Jim Horton used to ask audiences how they would feel about a surgeon who didn’t read revisionist medical literature..." Enjoy! http://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-histo... Dag -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043-1311 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 Fax: +1 650 810 1055 Twitter: @ComputerHistory