Richard Evans 
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8/29/2021
Richard J. Evans on Fascism, Today's Right, and Historical Truth
by Aaron J. Leonard
"Honest historians know they have to abandon their arguments when the evidence turns out to disprove them; dishonest historians and conspiracy theorists bend the evidence to fit the argument."
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SOURCE: The Nation
4/26/19
Chronicling the Age of Hobsbawm: A Q&A With Historian Richard Evans
“The more I have read his writings, the more I have come to admire and respect him not just as an historian but as a person.”
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SOURCE: Slate
2-10-17
Third Reich historian Richard Evans worries the similarities between the 1930s and now are too close for comfort
"Of course history never repeats itself. Democracy dies in different ways at different times.”
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SOURCE: The Guardian
1-15-14
Jeremy Paxman accuses Michael Gove of 'wilfully misquoting' historian
Newsnight presenter says education secretary's remarks about Professor Sir Richard Evans over first world war were unfair.
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SOURCE: Cambridge University
1-8-14
Cambridge University historian Professor Sir Richard Evans declines offer to sue Michael Gove for libel over 'Blackadder' First World War remarks
Gove had called Evans' arguments about World War I those of "an undergraduate cynic."
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