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| 6d8b66b | The Irish were regarded as shiftless and drunken; moreover, they were papists, and their fealty to Rome, it was said, meant they could never become loyal Americans. They were subjected to severe discrimination in employment and were despised by genteel society. W.E.B. Du Bois, the black scholar, testified that when he grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in the 1870s, "the racial angle was more clearly defined against the Irish than .. | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | ||
| 6f43b24 | The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history. | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |