<p>Questions raised by a controversial op-ed by AHA President James Sweet inevitably hung over the annual meeting as scholars met amid political attacks from without and debates within the profession. </p>
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<p>Questions raised by a controversial op-ed by AHA President James Sweet inevitably hung over the annual meeting as scholars met amid political attacks from without and debates within the profession. </p>
At the annual meeting of the American Historian Association, the raging battle over how to write about the past — and why — was uncomfortably front and center.