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The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?
If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the past, others will, and they will not necessarily do it well.
In the academic world, biographies of these great figures of the past fell out of favor in the 1960s, when there was a turn toward social history, which meant the history of the voiceless and faceless. But the public at large never embraced the idea that these dead white guys should be abandoned.