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  • Jan 12, 2008

    Week of Jan. 7, 2008

    by Cliopatria

  • Ari Kelman

    If the nation stays on its current vector for much longer — say, another ten months or so — we’re going to be reading ignoring a lot of stories about the end of the modern Republican coalition. And eventually, some unknown number of years after that, historians will have their say about the rise and fall of whatever lab
  • Jan 10, 2008

    FAS on Tonkin Gulf

    by Cliopatria

    From newly released documents:

    Steven Aftergood, director of the FAS project on government secrecy . . . said that probably the"most historically significant feature" of the declassified report was the retelling of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident . . .

    "What this study demonstrated is that the available intelligence shows that there was no attack
  • Jan 9, 2008

    A Bradley Effect?

    by Cliopatria

    Andrew Sullivan and David Kuo invoke the possibility of a"Bradley" effect (or a Harvey Gantt effect, given that Gantt led in polls just before his 1990 election against Jesse Helms)--i.e., a segment of white voters lying to pollsters about their willingness to vote for a black candidate, only to vote for the white candidate
  • Jan 8, 2008

    Jon Wiener: Review of Drew Gilpin Faust's This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

    by Cliopatria

    [Jon Wiener teaches U.S. history at UC Irvine and is a contributing editor of the Nation magazine. His most recent book is "Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower."]

    Amazon.com lists more than 36,000 books on the American Civil War, and my guess is that most of them depict battles and heroes, and describe wartime deaths as noble and tragic. Drew Gilpin Faust's "This Republic of Suffering" does something different. It's a shatter
  • Jan 8, 2008

    Gloria Steinem's History Lesson

    by Cliopatria

    After chiding Barack Obama for invoking John Kennedy and erroneously asserting that Ted Kennedy had endorsed Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, feminist icon Gloria Steinem provided an American history lesson in today’s Times.

    Steinem observed that the results of what she termed the Iowa “primary” showed that women have generally had a tougher time in U.S. history than

  • Jan 8, 2008

    The Cliopatria Awards, 2007

    by Cliopatria

    At the 5th Annual Banquet of the Cliopatricians at the American Historical Association convention in Washington, DC, the winners of The Cliopatria Awards for 2007 were announced. Many thanks to Jeremy Boggs of ClioWeb and George Mason University who designed the logo for The Cliopatria Awards. Thanks also to the judges who made the difficult decisions in se

  • Jan 7, 2008

    AHA 2008: Philip Zelikow

    by Cliopatria

    The HISTORY NEWS NETWORK (http://hnn.us) recorded this appearance of Philip Zelikow at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington DC on January 5, 2008.

    He spoke at a luncheon sponsored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. While the members of SHAFR ate tasty Lebanese dishes at Taverna's across the street from the Marriott, Zelikow reflected on how his experiences in government and his research into t