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  • Sep 5, 2007

    What are historians good for?

    by Cliopatria

    I'm excited to be joining Revise and Dissent. Dave gave me a very nice introduction, and in this first post I'm going to explain a little more about what drives me as an historian.

    When a colleague delivers the 30 second 'haiku' version of their current project, there is a question I ask if I feel comfortable pushing them a bit:"Why does your work matter to anyone who is not an historian?"

    I constantly struggl

  • Sep 5, 2007

    More Noted Things

    by Cliopatria

    Megan Marshall,"The Women's History Boom," Slate, 4 September, reviews Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History. Ulrich's tale stretches back to Christine de Pizan in 15th century France and then focuses on the last four decades in which women's activism has become mainstream history. Thanks to Manan Ahmed for the tip.

    Richard Eder,"

  • Sep 4, 2007

    Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA By Tim Weiner

    by Cliopatria

    [From the Publisher: Doubleday]

    For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, “a legacy of ashes.”

  • Sep 2, 2007

    The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures

    by Cliopatria

    The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war captured on film, and this rare collection of early films allows the user to investigate some of the ways in which the birth of cinema emerged alongside, and shaped, changing ideas of gender, race, sexuality, and nation.

    This site features 68 motion pictures of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Revolution produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company and the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company between 1898 and 1901. This glimpse at

  • Sep 1, 2007

    Until Proven Innocent

    by Cliopatria

    This morning, Stuart Taylor, KC Johnson's co-author of Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, was interviewed on NPR's"Morning Edition." At the link, you can listen to the interview. NPR also offers an excerpt from the book's Chapter 8:"Academic McCarthyism."
  • Aug 31, 2007

    Stop the Presses

    by Cliopatria


    Pete Seeger is singing out about Stalin's injustices.

    Actually, I really have enjoyed Seeger's music my whole life. And I do think it's a good thing for him to make this commitment, given the circumstances of his long political and cultural life.

    But it does sort of make you wonder if he's got enough time left to get up to Cz
  • Aug 30, 2007

    Craig Buettinger: Review of Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race, ed. Brian R. Dirck

    by Cliopatria

    Brian R. Dirck, ed. _Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race_. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. xiv + 189 pp. Notes, index. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87580-359-3.

    Reviewed for H-CivWar by Craig Buettinger, Department of History, Jacksonville University

    Since the 1960s, Lincoln scholarship has particularly focused on his thoughts and policies about emancipation and race. Lincoln was no alabaster Great Emancipator. Indeed, some scho
  • Aug 30, 2007

    Did Karl Rove Doom Bush's Presidency?

    by Cliopatria

    HNN welcomes your comments.

    You do not have to register to participate in this poll for the first two weeks; after that, registration is required. [Update: The two weeks has expired. Registration is now required for comments] We do ask all readers to abide by our civility guidelines whether they register or not.

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  • Aug 30, 2007

    Thursday Notes

    by Cliopatria

    Tim Burke,"Angry at Academe," Easily Distracted, 29 August, looks at causes of anger toward American higher education.

    Joan Acocella,"Cloud Nine," New Yorker, 3 September, reviews a new translation of Dante's Paradiso by Robert and Jean Hollander.

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  • Aug 29, 2007

    Cliopatria Welcomes Rachel Leow

    by Cliopatria

    Cliopatria is pleased to welcome Rachel Leow to its circle. Originally from Malaysia, she is, at 22, Cliopatria's youngest member. At 16, she won the International Herald Tribune Journalist Challenge Award with an essay on globalization, which was published in the IHT in 2002. She received a B.A. with honours in Modern European History from Warwick University, graduating first in her class. Subsequently, Rachel took an M. Phil. in Historical Studies at Cambridge Unive