Mark Byrnes's Facing Backwards
"A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards." -- Karl Kraus
Mark S. Byrnes is Chair and Professor of History at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC.
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Sep 28, 2014
Obama's Playing “Small Ball” in Iraq and Syria
by Mark Byrnes's Facing Backwards
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Sep 7, 2014
What Obama's Critics Are Forgetting: Policy-Making Always Looks Decisive--In Retrospect
by Mark Byrnes's Facing Backwards
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Aug 19, 2014
"He Wasn't A Regular Guy"
by Mark Byrnes's Facing Backwards
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Aug 1, 2014
The Lesson Tolstoy Teaches About Writing History that We Should Remember on the Anniversary of World War I
by Mark Byrnes's Facing Backwards
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Jul 22, 2014
Historical Humility
by Mark Byrnes's Facing Backwards
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