Real live history professor Thomas Spencer critiques a history "quiz" on civil rights cited by Glenn Reynolds, who opines as well that Bill Clinton would flunk. It turns out that the quiz author wasn't doing so well himself; among other errors, he confuses Arkansas and Alabama so badly that some of the questions don't even make sense.

This would be a little less annoying if Reynolds wasn't in the habit of tarring any advocacy of firearms regulation, no matter how mild or what evidence is offered in its favor, by association with the bogus scholarship of Michael Bellesiles...