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  • Nov 19, 2005

    James D. King: The Elections of 1992 and 1996

    by Cliopatria

    James D. King is a professor of political science at the University of Wyoming.

    He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman on Saturday Nov. 12, 2005 after appearing on a panel at the Clinton Conference held at Hofstra Universty.
  • Nov 19, 2005

    Sidney Blumenthal: Bill Clinton's Legacy

    by Cliopatria

    Sidney Blumenthal is a columnist for Salon.com and the Guardian. He is the author of The Clinton Wars. He served as Assistant to the President, 1997-2001.

    He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman on Saturday Nov. 12, 2005 at the Clinton Conference held at Hofstra Universty.

  • Nov 19, 2005

    Old Records, Books, and a Paper

    by Cliopatria

    My older brother, Maurice, retired last year from teaching in Religious Studies at Emory & Henry College in southwest Virginia. He taught there for many years and the plan is that he and his wife are retiring to Florida, where her family lives. Making the transition to another place after being long rooted somewhere is a big move, with lots of dispersing of accumulated things to be done. A few of them are dispersed on me.

    So, yesterday, on their penultimate trip from Virgi

  • Nov 18, 2005

    Nigel Hamilton: Assessing Bill Clinton's Presidency

    by Cliopatria

    NIgel Hamilton is the author of several books including, Bill Clinton: An American Journey.

    He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman on Saturday Nov. 12, 2005 at the Clinton Conference held at Hofstra Universty.

  • Nov 18, 2005

    John Robert Greene: Was It "The Economy, Stupid?"

    by Cliopatria

    John Robert Greene is Professor of History and Humanities at Cazenovia College.

    He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman on Thursday Nov. 10, 2005 after appearing on a panel at the Clinton Conference held at Hofstra Universty.
  • Nov 18, 2005

    Douglas Brinkley: Clinton's Legacy

    by Cliopatria

    Douglas Brinkley is the director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization at Tulane University.

    He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman on Saturday Nov. 12, 2005 after appearing on a panel at the Clinton Conference held at Hofstra Universty.
  • Nov 18, 2005

    David Greenberg: Was Bill Clinton a Liberal?

    by Cliopatria

    David Greenberg is professor of jouirnalism and media studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

    He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman on Friday Nov. 11, 2005 after appearing on a panel at the Clinton Conference held at Hofstra Universty.
  • Nov 18, 2005

    Whitman's Multitudes, for Better and Worse

    by Cliopatria

    Anniversary exhibitions built around the publication of an author's Major Work often have a dutiful air. Books in first and subsequent editions are prettily arranged in glass cases, along with relevant manuscripts, photographs and ephemera. And don't forget the lock of hair, neatly braided or twirled just so, supplying the illusion that the great man (or woman) is somehow just out of sight.

    You blink and imagine the hair on the head, the head on the body, the writer sprung to life,
  • Nov 18, 2005

    Noted Here and There

    by Cliopatria

    David Irving has been arrested in Austria and charged under 1989 laws there that make denial of the Holocaust a crime. Timesonline cites an Austrian official as saying that Irving will be held in custody until the case goes to trial, perhaps in late December.

    "College Week" at

  • Nov 17, 2005

    NCH WASHINGTON UPDATE (Vol. 11, #44; 17 NOVEMBER 2005)

    by Cliopatria

    by Bruce Craig (editor) with Nathaniel Kulyk (contributor) NATIONAL COALITION FOR HISTORY (NCH) Website at http://www.h-net.org/~nch/

    1. DONATION APPEAL TO READERS
    2. REPORT: MEETING OF THE NHPRC
    3. NEH AWARDS $565,000 FOR HURRICANE-RELATED RELIEF
    4. BUSH LIBRARY RELEASES MORE POLICY AND CONFIDENTIAL RECORDS
    5. CIA CONTINUES TO RESIST RELEASE OF JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS
    6. BITS AND BYTES: NPS Responds to NCH FOIA Request; Coming Up Taller Award
    Nomination

  • Nov 17, 2005

    Phronesis

    by Cliopatria

    Scott McLemee just made my day (it doesn't take much):
    phronesis ... “a sound practical instinct for the course of events, an almost indefinable hunch that anticipates the future by remembering the past and thus judges the present correctly.” [also see definitions here and the
  • Nov 17, 2005

    Masterpieces in the mishmash

    by Cliopatria

    It's an oddly dissatisfying experience visiting the National Portrait Gallery's Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary exhibition. The eminently watchable Matthew Collings has just done a television series on the same subject - Western self-portraiture over the past 500 years - with which the exhibition is loosely associated. But this show fails to serve up catchy observations of the Collings ilk, and the over-intellectualised, frequently tautological essays in the accompanying catalogue con
  • Nov 17, 2005

    'MAKING ENDS MEET';

    by Cliopatria

    West Virginia University at Morgantown is only 75 miles south of Pittsburgh, and members of its art faculty regularly attend and exhibit in Pittsburgh venues. Several currently have work at Pittsburgh Filmmakers and at Artists Image Resource.

    A solo exhibition of photographs by Neal Newfield at Filmmakers, "Making Ends Meet: West Virginia Community Voices," may sound like it has little relevance to local viewers, but it addresses poverty in the rural Appalachian Mountain r
  • Nov 16, 2005

    The Unreported

    by Cliopatria

    Over at Crooked Timber, Henry Farrell offers a discussion, among other things, of whether antiwar protesters ever spat on soldiers returning from Vietnam.

    Quoting from a recent article by Rick Perlstein, Farrell (and others in the comments) accept a proposition that the lack of contemporaneous media accounts of spitting indicate that their later appearance in historical narrative is mythological, and politically