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  • Jan 20, 2008

    "The Great Need of the Hour"

    by Cliopatria

    Senator Barack Obama addressed the congregation at Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta this morning. Here is his message:

    The Scripture tells us that when Joshua and the Israelites arrived at the gates of Jericho, they could not enter. The walls of the city were too steep for any one person to climb; too strong to be taken down with brute force. And so they sat for days, unable to pass on through.

    But God had a plan for his people. He told them to stand togethe

  • Jan 20, 2008

    Sunday Notes

    by Cliopatria

    Michael Dirda reviews Brian Jay Jones's Washington Irving: An American Original for the Washington Post, 20 January.

    Michèle C. Cone,"The Last Sensualists," artnet, December, reviews Alyce Mahon's Eroticism & Art, Amy Lyford's Surrealist Masculinities, André Salmon's L'êrotisme dans l

  • Jan 19, 2008

    "Katnip Kollege"

    by Cliopatria

    The quality of this 1938 Merry Melodies cartoon video is excellent and it features first rate animation and music.

  • Jan 18, 2008

    Week of Jan. 14, 2008

    by Cliopatria

  • Josh Marshall

    Rudy’s collapse is the mark of the worst presidential campaign in history. Think about it: Rudy Gulliani was the national frontrunner a year ago in many, many polls. He led virtually all of his Republican opponents, and several of the top Democratic candidates as well. Today, he has been drubbed in every race and is left in a do-or-die situation in Florida. Two of histories previous “worst”
  • Jan 18, 2008

    Holding Job Search Committees More Accountable

    by Cliopatria

    Michael Bowen just came out with a provocative article on the academic history job market that, among other things, calls upon the AHA to"Make the Job Register service a privilege that has to be earned." Let me first state that I sympathize with Bowen's argument. However, I think it is based on some flawed assumptions that undermine his recommendations for the AHA's Job Register. I would like to propose something more radical.
  • Jan 17, 2008

    Nevada Caucus OK'd

    by Cliopatria

    A Las Vegas judge just ruled against a lawsuit filed by several Hillary Clinton supporters and the Nevada teachers' union to change the rules for the state's Saturday caucus. The judge upheld the state party's plan to have nine at-large caucuses in Las Vegas casinos.

    This has been a strange campaign in virtually every respect: seeing backers of a major Democratic candidate sue to m
  • Jan 16, 2008

    Somebody Contact Ken Burns

    by Cliopatria

    It turns out everything Johah Goldberg says in Liberal Fascism is true. There are photographs.

    But a lot of people won't believe it, just because of exchanges like the one described here, overheard during Goldberg's appearance last night at the Borders in downtown Washington, DC:

    While waiting t
  • Jan 16, 2008

    The Commons

    by Cliopatria

    The wildly popular photo-sharing site, Flickr recently announced a new initiative of interest to historians: The Commons - a unique attempt to expand public history and technology. They debuted with two Library of Congress photo sets and the promise of more.

    The appeal for historians, as stated on LoC Blo
  • Jan 16, 2008

    Shades of '64 and '40

    by Cliopatria

    A central principle of postwar American politics has been the power of the Republican establishment. From Tom Dewey (1948) to Dwight Eisenhower (1952, 1956) to Richard Nixon (1960, 1968, 1972) to Gerald Ford (1976) to Ronald Reagan (1980, 1984) to George H.W. Bush (1988, 1992) to Bob Dole (1996) to George W. Bush (2000, 2004), the GOP establishment has not only rallied behind its candidate for the nomination, but has generally done so with ease.

    There is, however, one obvious

  • Jan 14, 2008

    Here We Go, Again!

    by Cliopatria

    Clayton Cramer's on the warpath again. Fifteen American historians (Jack N. Rakove, Saul Cornell, David T. Konig, William J. Novak, Lois G. Schwoerer, Fred Anderson, Carol Berkin, Paul Finkelman, R. Don Higginbotham, Stanley N. Katz, Pauline R. Maier, Peter S. Onuf, Robert E. Shalhope, John Shy, and Alan Taylor) have filed an
  • Jan 13, 2008

    Obama as "White Hope"?

    by Cliopatria

    David Greenberg has an interesting article in today’s Washington Post, describing Barack Obama as the “great white hope,” because Obama—unlike previous African-American presidential candidates such as Jesse Jackson or Shirley Chisholm—allows “whites to feel good about themselves and their country . . . [and] doesn't threaten or discomfort whites.”

    In one respect,