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  • Oct 15, 2007

    Citation Patterns in the Journal of American History

    by Cliopatria

    I was wondering the other day about good places to publish essays in American history. I think this thought was sparked by the new"Directory of History Journals" on the AHA's web site. I like how this online directory is available freely, how the AHA staff is looking for feedback to improve it, and how nicely it allows users to match their research interests with the right kind of history journal. Then I started wondering about the f
  • Oct 13, 2007

    Thursday Notes

    by Cliopatria

    KM Lawson is your host for Asian History Carnival #17 at Frog in a Well/China. Enjoy yourselves! On Sunday 14 October, Brett Holman will host Military History Carnival #7 at Airminded. Send nominations of the best of military history blogging since 16 September to bholman*at*airminded*dot*org or use
  • Oct 12, 2007

    Week of Oct. 8, 2007

    by Cliopatria

  • Eric Alterman

    Congrats to Al Gore for a well deserved Nobel Peace Prize. If I were one of these pundit fellows, I would opine that the only way this prize can be turned into a successful run for the Democratic nomination would be to strike a deal with Barack Obama in the next seventy hours or so for Obama to agree to step aside and run as Gore's vice president (which would give Edwards the opportunity t
  • Oct 10, 2007

    Lee Harris: Review of Barry Rubin's The Truth about Syria

    by Cliopatria

    [Lee Harris is the author, most recently, of The Suicide of Reason (Basic Books).]

    Barry Rubin.The Truth about Syria. Palgrave Macmillan. 304 pages. $24.95

    “The age of illusions is over,” the historian Walter Laqueur wrote recently, referring to the illusions the West continues to entertain about the confrontation with radical Islam. Needless to say, Laqueur did not mean that we in the West no longer have any illusions on this subject; those still abound. He meant, rath
  • Oct 10, 2007

    Is the Surge Working?

    by Cliopatria

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