On Thursday, September 17 – Constitution Day – the National Archives hosted an event billed as The White House History Conference.  It was livestreamed on the White House youtube channel.  Before the conference began, historians on Twitter were joking about who might be on the dais – David Barton, Dinesh D’Souza, Bill O’Reilly.  Of course none of those people are historians, but none of us historians on Twitter expected that any actual, real historians would be willing to participate and therefore lend legitimacy to what we expected would be a highly partisan and thinly history-focused event. We were right on Read more