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  • Apr 7, 2008

    A Call for Symposium

    by Cliopatria

    It’s been far too long, but here it is: Cliopatria’s tenth symposium, Reconcile and Remember: The Past in History and Politics. We will discuss Valérie Rosoux’s Forgiveness: Grandeur or Political Slogan (Dr. Rosoux has graciously allowed us to reprint and translate her article at HNN). Her work challenges us to think about how the peacemaking process bring about new interpretation
  • Apr 7, 2008

    Week of April 7, 2008

    by Cliopatria

    Up Front

    History Buzz
    Bonnie Goodman

    HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency Worst
    Robert S. McElvaine

    Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2008 OAH Convention: NYC (March 28 to 31)
    Rick Shenkman

    • Apr 7, 2008

      What should elections, and primaries, measure?

      by Cliopatria

      Over at Cliopatria, K. C. Johnson started an interesting discussion of the current debate over “voter disenfranchisement” and the Democratic party.

      This post began life as I was composing a response to a comment by Nicholas Norden there: “It's discouraging that the Obama campaign has characterized the popular vote metric as legitimate.” But my reply got so long, I decided to put it here, instead.

    • Apr 6, 2008

      Rankin

      by Cliopatria

      On the campaign trail yesterday in Montana, Hillary Clinton invoked the career of Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress:"Remember, Jeannette Rankin was elected before women could vote. So who says men don't vote for a woman?"

      Setting aside the question of who, exactly,"says men don't vote for a woman," Rankin was elected in 1916. Montana women received the right to vote in
    • Apr 6, 2008

      The Poverty Czar

      by Cliopatria

      Last week, Hillary Clinton announced that, if elected, she would appoint a poverty czar, endowed with authority of a cabinet officer. Issue czars don’t have the best track record over the years (Bill Bennett’s tenure as drug czar comes to mind), and poverty certainly wasn’t a priority of Clinton’s tenure in the Senate, or the initial year of her presidential campaign.

      It’s not hard, therefore, to detect a political motive to Clinton’s proposal. The campaign has witnessed her

    • Apr 6, 2008

      Sunday Notes

      by Cliopatria

      Death by Blogging. I'm not feeling so well, myself!

      Third World Women:

    • In Helene Cooper,"In Search of a Lost Africa," NYT, 6 April, the Time's diplomatic correspondent returns to her native Liberia to find what remains of what she remembers. The article is excerpted from her book, The House at Sugar Beach, which
  • Apr 4, 2008

    Week of March 31, 2008

    by Cliopatria

  • News Story

    Beatrice De Cardi is in little doubt about what has driven her these past nine decades. Travelling to some of the world's most inhospitable places, coping with boiling heat, ruthless bandits and wild animals with a disarming, old world insouciance, it is, she says, her insatiable curiosity that has kept her going.

    "It is exa