Jeff Hardin

“What remains difficult to fathom is how White, a president of the American Historical Association, justified to himself his grotesquely unhistorical (mis) use of sources—from resorting to the romanticized fictions of Washington Irving for “facts” about Columbus to the strategic truncation of a quotation from St. Augustine to make the African Doctor appear to say something exactly opposite to what he meant.”
― Jeff Hardin, The Warfare between Science & Religion: The Idea That Wouldn't Die