Historical Myths 
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
1/25/2023
Beyond Mythbusting, What Should Historians Tell the Public?
by Steven Mintz
The success of the new "Myth America" collection shows a public appetite for confronting historical myths, but historians have to offer the public more than debunking.
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SOURCE: Age of Revolutions
12/5/2022
Mythmaking in Manhattan: 1776 and Santa Claus
by Benjamin L. Carp
Contemporary New York elites downplayed the possibility that rebellious colonists set the Great Fire of New York in 1776; the same people were responsible for the modern myth of Santa Clause. The connections between the two are surprising.
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