As a practicing attorney, I find it humorous for anyone to suggest that "professional" historians with their PC perspectives are somehow more objective and factually accurate than members of my profession.
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> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:24:59 -0700
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: (VA-HIST] "The Monster of Monticello"
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> In dealing with some attorneys, the question is not of inaccuracies; it is
> of lies. Attorneys are trained to represent a side of an issue, whether or
> not they agree with the side they represent. Who is better equipped to lie
> than an attorney? Attorneys can be your best friends or your worst enemies.
> They get no right-of-way of the "truth" by me - they often get the opposite
> (and often have earned it).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herbert Barger
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:28 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] (VA-HIST] "The Monster of Monticello"
>
> The Madison Hemings, Samuel Wetmore Pike Co. article fits the last line
> exactly, "constructed their memories in a particular way at a particular
> time."
>
> Herb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Heinegg
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 5:37 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] (VA-HIST] "The Monster of Monticello"
>
> David Thelen discusses the issue of memory and U.S. history in his article
> "Memory and American History" [Journal of American History, Vol. 75 (March
> 1989): 1117-1129].
> "..the memory of past experiences is so profoundly intertwined with the
> basic identities of individuals, groups, and cultures..."
> "...the important question is not how accurately a recollection fitted some
> piece of past reality, but why historical actors constructed their memories
> in a particular way at a particular time."
> Paul
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