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.

Sep 29, 2014

Obama's Playing “Small Ball” in Iraq and Syria

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Sep 8, 2014

What Obama's Critics Are Forgetting: Policy-Making Always Looks Decisive--In Retrospect

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Aug 19, 2014

"He Wasn't A Regular Guy"

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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

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Jul 22, 2014

Historical Humility

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