There is no problem whatsoever for Macedonian scholarship to account for various historical periods and personalities.

You start from a wrong premise which leads you to a wrong conclusion. Boris Sarafov and Dimitar Chupovski did NOT "for the first time ever" express a separate Macedonian national identity. The Macedonian identity was there to begin with, expressed very clearly for example during the Kresna Uprising. After all, that is why the three neighboring peoples and others had to wage comprehensive propaganda campaigns, and opened hundreds of schools, churches, libraries, and trading offices, to sway much of the younger population to their side through cultural/linguistic assimilation.




Arthur Bullard




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Born in Missouri in 1879, Bullard graduated from the Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ and attended Hamilton College for two years. He subsequently worked as a probation officer in New York City, during which time he wrote several essays on criminology. His work as a foreign correspondent for various american and european journals, which began in 1904, was highlighted by editorships with THE OUTLOOK (1914) and OUR WORLD (1922-1924). Like his press writings (sometimes published under the pseudonym “Albert Edwards”) his later novels, travel books, and political volumes drew on his travels through Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, North Africa, and Central America. Bullard was also a statesman. He served on the Committee on Public Information's divisions in Washington, Western Russia, and Siberia from 1917 to 1919, was chief of the Russian Division of the Department of State from 1919 to 1921, worked for John W. Davis during his presidential campaign in 1924, and was a representative of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association in Geneva. He died in Geneva on September 10, 1929.