October 6, 2006
Herbert Aptheker: the Contradictions of History
Long ago, when the historian Eugene D. Genovese breathed fire from his left nostril instead of his right, he disturbed the placid pages of the journal Science & Society with a scorching blast at Herbert Aptheker, initiating what would become a legendary controversy in American historiography.
In that year, 1963, Genovese was a mere upstart. Later he would have a decisive influence upon the discipline of history, literally redefining social history (in a famous essay written with
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