Who is the most influential historian among young people? Filmmaker Ken Burns? Could it be the Democrats’ court historian, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.? Biographer David McCullough? How about the late Stephen Ambrose, whose triumphant view of American history has brought alive such colorful characters as Meriwether Lewis, Crazy Horse, and George Custer? Full article published at FrontPageMag.

Stephan Ambrose is a pseudohistorian. He made a lot of his stuff up. Actually, as a young American, I can tell you that the conservative historian Robert Kagan is the most influential because his books are most often assigned in general history classes, even at liberal universites. Howard Zinn is big too among the leftist crowd, but his work is still on the margins.