The Weaponization of Ancient History
Part 2 of 2: The role of propaganda in our current wars
As I noted in “War Propaganda and Notions of Civic Duty”, war makes us terrible historians. But as I hope my reflection on how some people see propaganda as a civic duty made clear, we are also not passive actors in this process.
Many of us actively weaponize history in wartime, too.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, it did so with a great deal of prop…
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