"90 Years On: Legacy of the Great War," John Milton Cooper, Margaret MacMillan & Jay Winter

Historians John Milton Cooper and Margaret MacMillan sit down with fellow historian and moderator, Jay Winter, to discuss the legacy of the Great War ninety years later.
Sponsored in part by: Sosland Foundation of Kansas City; Oppenstein Brothers Foundation; Park University; Metropolitan Community College, Kansas City Public Library; and Truman Library.
Recorded November 22, 2007 in J.C. Nichols Auditorium at the National World War I Museum and Memorial.
For more information about the National WWI Museum and Memorial visit theworldwar.org

[@Nounismisation]

There are very few things more disappointing or more futile than an academic who cannot leave their patriotism and/or religion out of their work. I am not the only one to have noticed and sighed at this. Otherwise, this is a great upload. Thanks.

[@stanbrown32]

This is 2 years after your comment, but I wonder where you see this failing? Cooper and MacMillan are both great scholars--I don't see the failing you mention.

[@willboudreau1187]

It might be unfair of me to come into this comment multiple years later but the original commenter is spot on with his political instincts when he gently rebukes Macmillan for her biases. I too am barely able to sense them in this current lecture of hers which is otherwise a Flawless tour de force made all the stronger because it is impromptu, on the other hand I am so enthralled by her wit and historical depth as well as breath that I have listened to a lot of her lectures which are much more contemporaneous to the year 2022 and her silence on Obama and on the left wing extremism borderline authoritarianism that has taken over the Democrat Party with defunding police and BLM and CRT and On Demand abortions and prepubescent a double mastectomies without parental knowledge to conform to the ideological narrative being taught by grade school teachers in what have come to pass to be little more than thinly veiled government-funded indoctrination centers, well her silence on what the extreme left is doing to America is almost as deafening as her smarmy and almost schoolgirl snickering over people who are trying to conserve the foundational institutions that once made this country great. So it warms the cockles of my heart to hear her scintillating wit Non-Stop for well over an hour and a half in very thoughtful dialogue with another thoughtful scholar hosted by a third thoughtful scholar without there being even the faintest scent in the air of ideological toxicity.

[@willboudreau1187]

Damn, I spoke too soon. Towards the end she is clearly sitting on her hands intellectually wanting to fume at the hosts comments about George Bush. On the other hand with the advantage of hindsight, the begrudging disrespect I once felt for George Bush, now comes to me much more frequently and easily now that he has been judged rightfully and ruefully by history.

[@leebarry5686]

They don't respect justice because they don't really believe in God and misled by selfish interest

[@leebarry5686]

Why Christianity has not played any active role in guiding the foreign policy of Christendom to the right track , ie to justice ?

[@AhmetwithaT]

Self determination was all about tearing apart all the empires in Europe so that America would have no rivals. If the US was really serious about this they would have started with native Americans.

[@stanbrown32]

There were millions of Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, etc. The Native American population was much, much smaller.

[@davidstallard3840]

If you look at a map of Noth America and then look at the lands that the Native Americans occupied , then there is no room for anyone else ( remember many of the tribes moved around , no fixed abode ) so if you take that as a basis only very small areas would be available to others , I'm not saying that should not happen , but you better get the ships ready to send back the masses ( mostly white , followed by the African Americans )

[@stevefranckhauser7989]

Every human has a bias. The question is whether that bias is unfair.
As to the level of disappointment attributable to imperfect historians, get over it. History is subject to interpretation and to deny historians their humanity is to reduce history to a set of facts.
That is not history, it’s a crossword puzzle.
I can think of hundreds of more disappointing circumstances than a human historian.
The lousy politicians and elected officials comes to mind.