Was Tuchman the greatest American Historian of all time?

No, she was a biased Jewess and probably a communist spy too.

>>2569260

>biased

how so?

>>2569251
The fact that she worked from secondary sources instead of archives disqualifies her.

>>2569251
>female
>Jew
>American
Have a guess.

>>2569251
she got lots of people into history but she's basically a high-middle brow pop historian (which again, is not a bad thing). she did spread some misconceptions though about wwi and the middle ages

>>2569373
Yes?

>>2569389
>she did spread some misconceptions though about wwi and the middle ages

14th Century, perhaps, but what misconceptions of WWI did she spread?

>>2569373

>>/pol/
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>>2569549
dunno, i've heard guns of august was unnecessarily harsh on the central powers and too forgiving of the entente powers.

>>2569365

Guns of August and A Distant Mirror both have extensive primary source research done.

There's nothing wrong with working with both primary and secondary.

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>>2571869

>Frontier Thesis

>>2569251
I read Distant Mirror and Guns of August and loved them, very readable and engaging.