We accept change in other areas of life. I doubt anyone recoils in horror and accuses their physician of being a “medical revisionist” when they use the latest medical marvel during treatment. Is the annual fascination with new cars troubling evidence of “automobile revisionism?” Why are historians solely burdened with the negative baggage implied by the term?
In prison death chambers, the state is willing to quite literally reenact a practice from some of the country’s bloodiest history, writes Mark M. Smith.
By Mark M. Smith
University of South Carolina
Americans have an appetite for reenacting the past, especially the battles of the U.S. Ci
If an explosion occurs and no nose is there to sniff it, does it have a smell? The big bang unleashed a mix of matter that formed and continues to form the mole