Lynn Hunt, former president of the AHA, wrote this piece six years ago. A historian who often takes the Annalistes' approach to "small-ball" history, she offers her view of attempts to find meaning in the French Revolution.
I am posting this here because her emphasis--on the politics of fear, beliefs in conspiracies, and the clash between the ideologies of left of right for the right to define history--seems more relevant today than when this article was written.
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