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  • Jul 10, 2007

    More Noted Things

    by Cliopatria

    The new Common-place is up, with lots of good things! Gilles Havard and Cécile Vidal on the recovery of New France, Madison Smartt Bell and Laurent Dubois discuss the Haitian Revolution, Richard John on Thomas Bender's A Nation Among Nations, Robert Wright on Saul Cornell's A Well-Regulated Militia, and more.

    AHA Today's Robert B. Townsend reflec

  • Jul 10, 2007

    Students Of History

    by Cliopatria

    I read with interest the Halberstam articlementioned by Dr. Luker, which contains an outstanding line about the President's"recent conversion to history." This is stated perfectly. It touches on a theme in the administration's public presentation of its foreign policy that I have written about in the past, and which I discuss in my next column for
  • Jul 7, 2007

    About Face

    by Cliopatria

    This non-computer animation is created by 9 months of drawing at 800 drawings per month. Hat tip.
    Animal and human facial transformations including caricatures of Henry VIII, Mick Jagger, Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, The Marx Brothers and the many faces of David Bowie. Written and drawn by Chris J
  • Jul 5, 2007

    Branded

    by Cliopatria

    In today's Inside Higher Ed, Mark Bauerlein writes:
    After I left graduate school, more literary/cultural criticism anthologies appeared along with various dictionaries and encyclopedias. The process seems to have culminated in The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (ed. Vincent Leitch et al), whose publication in 2001 was momentous enough to merit a long story by Scott McLemee in The Chronicle
  • Jul 3, 2007

    Week of July 2, 2007

    by Cliopatria

  • Re: Tom Cruise Weekly Standard Scrapbook:

    Frankly, we don't much care if Tom Cruise (and other Hollywood illuminati such as John Travolta, Priscilla Presley, etc.) are Scientologists or not; we enjoy a good laugh as much as the next moviegoer. What offends us is the idea of a buffoon like Cruise playing a tragic hero of modern history. What's next? Steven Seagal as Dietrich
  • Jul 2, 2007

    From blitzkrieg to blitz

    by Cliopatria

    [Cross-posted at Airminded.]

    The German bombing of London and other British cities between September 1940 and May 1941 is referred to as"the Blitz", a contemporary term which, if not actually coined by the press, was certainly popularised by it. Blitz is short for blitzkrieg, German for"lightning war", which was the label given to the spectacularly mobile armoured offensives, strongly supported by tactical bombing, whi