Famed "Star Trek" actor William Shatner decried the erasure of history and rewriting of literature in fiery posts on Wednesday. "It’s called Presentism and it was used wreak havoc on history several ...

Liberal comedian Bill Maher roasted the woke concept of "presentism," where historical figures and events are judged in the prism of the present – further arguing against the oft-claimed leftist ...

A brief history of historians’ chatter (“Two Cheers for Presentism” The Chronicle Review, August 23), may be instructive. David A. Bell, the Princeton history-professor son of a Harvard sociology ...

In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that neither the future nor the past exists. The opposite of presentism is 'eternalism', which is a belief in things that are past and things that ...

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True historians deplore the application of current values to the words and deeds of historical figures. They call such sloppy and lazy thinking "presentism." Persons with such a view of history tend ...

If K-12 teachers present the past primarily through the lens of the present, the public may lose faith in their ability to address history at all. Americans are losing faith in the ability of public ...