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  • Mar 18, 2008

    Things Noted Here and There

    by Cliopatria

    Congratulations to the winners of this year's Bancroft Prize: Allan M. Brandt of the Harvard Medical School for The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America, Charles Postel of California State, Sacramento, for The Populist Vision, and Peter Silver of Princeton for Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America.

  • Mar 17, 2008

    The Subcommittee

    by Cliopatria

    This morning, the Clinton campaign released a memorandum that Time’s Mark Halperin described as “question[ing] Obama’s national security credentials.” Among the allegations: the previously-stated claim that “when [Obama] took over the subcommittee that oversees NATO and Afghanistan and had a chance to fol
  • Mar 17, 2008

    Sunday Notes

    by Cliopatria

    Eileen Joy hosts Carnivalesque XXXVII, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, at In the Middle.

    Our colleague, Rachel Leow, is on a conference/research trip in the United States. This week she was doing research in the papers of G

  • Mar 17, 2008

    Jeremiah

    by Cliopatria

    Mr. Luker, an Atlanta historian, was co-editor of the first two volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King. He is preparing a critical edition of the Vernon Johns Papers,"The Man Who Started Freedom": The Essays, Sermons and Speeches of Vernon Johns, for publication. He is the founder of the HNN blog, Cliopatria..

  • Mar 14, 2008

    Friday Notes

    by Cliopatria

    Eileen Joy will host Carnivalesque XXXVII, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, on Sunday 16 March at In the Middle. Send nominations of the best in ancient/medieval history blogging since 20 January to her at ejoy*at*siue*dot*edu or carnivalesque*at*earlymodernweb*dot*org*dot*uk. Ross Mahoney will host Military History Carnival XII on Thursday 20 March at Thoughts on Military H
  • Mar 13, 2008

    2008 and 1824

    by Cliopatria

    Stephen Schlessinger has an interesting HNN post on the Myth of the Pledged Delegates. He looks back at several 20th century races in which the conventions did make the nominations. He also makes the very logical point that if neither candidate comes in with a majority, then it is the duty of the convention to choose.

    But in politics, logic is not always enough.

    Since the 1960s, primaries have been the selection

  • Mar 13, 2008

    Metzenbaum

    by Cliopatria

    News across the wire that former Ohio senator Howard Metzenbaum has died, at age 90. Metzenbaum had one of the most interesting careers of any postwar Democratic senator: a multimillionaire who made his fortune in the airport parking lot business(!), he was campaign manager for Stephen Young's two upset victories to the Senate, in 1958 and 1964. He ran for Young's seat in 1970, surprised John Glenn in the primary, but lost to Bob Taft, Jr. (whom Young had defeated in 1964) in the general electio
  • Mar 12, 2008

    So how many have died in the Iraq War?

    by Cliopatria

    News Release, from the Pew Foundation:

    Public awareness of the number of American military fatalities in Iraq has declined sharply since last August. Today, just 28% of adults are able to say that approximately 4,000 Americans have died in the Iraq war. As of March 10, the Department of Defense had confirmed the deaths of 3,974 U.S. military personnel in Iraq.

    In August 2007, 54% correctly identifie

  • Mar 11, 2008

    3am and D.W. Griffith?

    by Cliopatria

    As Ryan Lizza observed in this week's New Yorker,"It is tempting to say that the Clinton campaign’s plan is to burn the village in order to save it—that Hillary Clinton believes that Democrats, hypnotized by Obama, are making a historic mistake from which only she can rescue them. And it is tempting to add that this means the political destruction of the man who is still most likely to be the De
  • Mar 10, 2008

    In Review

    by Cliopatria

    Tim Radford,"All hail the uber-tuber," Guardian, 8 March, reviews John Reader's Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History.

    Keith Thomas,"The man who would be king," Guardian, 8 March, reviews Michael Braddick's God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars.

    Noel Malcolm,"