2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's historian refutes Sanders claim that this country is "created on racist principles". [View all]historylovr
(1,557 posts)Teaches at Princeton. His area is supposed to be early National. Huh. It lists him as Robert Wilentz, but further down it says Sean.
Found this tidbit on his website, http://seanwilentz.com/about/
"In 1998, Wilentz joined with his friends and colleagues Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and C. Vann Woodward to form Historians in Defense of the Constitution, an ad hoc organization of several hundred American historians who opposed on constitutional grounds the impeachment of President Bill Clinton."
And here on Huffington Post: "He has been helping Clinton understand where and how her potential administration, and that of her husband Bill Clinton, fit into the arc of progressive history over the last half-century or more, according to people who know both him and the candidate."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/hillarys-historian-sean-wilentz_n_7337896.html
So, supposedly he know his stuff. And yet ...