December 4, 1998

Anti-Impeachment Historians and the Politics of History

By JESSE LEMISCH

Four days before the November elections, more than 400 scholars took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times (cost: $75,978), presenting themselves as "Historians in Defense of the Constitution" and opposing the impeachment of President Clinton.

Keen mavens of such ads have noticed among the signers -- in addition to the predominance of liberals and a few conservatives -- at least two dozen

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