Cliopatria

• Jul 10, 2005
  

  History Carnival

  by Cliopatria

  The next History Carnival will be held at Mode For Caleb on Friday 15 July.
  
  Email your nominations for recently published posts (since about
  

• Jul 10, 2005
  

  Noted Here and There ...

  by Cliopatria

  As I noted earlier, Chris Bray is in Atlanta this weekend and we have done what Cliopatricians do when they get together. We have eaten and talked history. After a tour of the Emory campus and a fine repast at the DeKalb Farmers Market yesterday, we found that a storm had knocked out the electricity at Cliopatriarchal palace, so we went out again for coffee and some serious reading. Georgia Power restored electricity later in the evening and we talked more history. Today, we intend to eat and ta
  

• Jul 9, 2005
  

  Threats in Birmingham?

  by Cliopatria

  Breaking news reports here in England are indicating that there is some kind of major scare in Birmingham. Apparently police are blockading the roads leading into the city center. Intelligence reports are that the city may be a terrorist target. Rumors are that parts of the Broad Street area, which has dozens of nightclubs, restaurants, and pubs, is now being evacuated, but reports on this front are conflicting.
  

• Jul 9, 2005
  

  Blogging Away The Job

  by Cliopatria

  What is it with job seekers who also write blogs? asks the pseudonymous author from a search committee in the CHE. The author states that either through googling or from the candidates' own cover letter, the search committee found the blogs of some of the serious contenders for the job. Serious contenders until their blogging revealed that either academia wasn't a priority f
  

• Jul 9, 2005
  

  Jonathan Rick: Abortion

  by Cliopatria

  To the Editor: The New York Times editorial board says it’s “intolerable” that anti-abortion pharmacists refuse to dispense birth control pills. I am as staunch a supporter of abortion rights as they come, but for the same reason I equally champion property rights: both represent the inalienable right of human autonomy. Just as no one should tell a woman how to dispose of her body, so no one should tell a businessman h
  

• Jul 9, 2005
  

  "America's Unfinished Revolution": A Symposium ...

  by Cliopatria

  The response to the symposium last month on Barry Gewen's"Forget the Founding Fathers" was such that we've decided to make it an irregular/monthly feature here at Cliopatria – monthly to remind us to do it periodically and irregular so we won't necessarily do one just because the calendar says so. We'll need a worthy article to discu
  

• Jul 9, 2005
  

  More on London

  by Cliopatria

  British authorities have readjusted their estimates of when the three bombs that went off in the Underground detonated. They are now asserting that the three exploded almost simultaneously, at 8:50 am, probably with a timer device. Up to now, the belief was that they had exploded more than a half hour apart. The bombs were not very big, they were also not homemade, and they “show a degree of professionalism” according to one account. Officials are still reluctant to announce that al Qaeda was re
  

• Jul 9, 2005
  

  Dewey/Bourne and Burke/McDaniel ...

  by Cliopatria

  Too briefly, I mentioned the discussion between Tim Burke and Caleb McDaniel yesterday. It's the Cliopatriarchs at our best. [ed.: Notice how I neatly claim their work as"ours." When they perform badly, I won't do that.] Perhaps it is best read as Burke,"Soldiering On," and McDaniel in comments, McDaniel,"Some Doubts," and comment
  

• Jul 8, 2005
  

  Cole Is Misinformed

  by Cliopatria

  I rarely find Juan Cole's Informed Comment particularly informative, but his backhanded defense of Respect MP George Galloway features a wholly incorrect reading of the historical record.

  The issue: after Galloway, the fanatically anti-war MP, described the London attacks as a response to British participation in the war in Iraq, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw responded,"People have to remember that 11 September was i

  

• Jul 8, 2005
  

  Miseducator-in-Chief

  by Cliopatria

  The London attacks are proof that one of the chief lines the Bush administration has taken on Iraq--that we are fighting them over there so we won't have to face them here at home--is nonsense. And the officials couldn't really believe it. The position was illogical on its face. Even if we are fighting thousands of terrorists in Iraq all terrorists are not in Iraq. Presumably some are living in this country. And as we saw with 9-11, it doesn't take an army of terrorists to launch a major at
  

• Jul 8, 2005
  

  Noted Here and There ...

  by Cliopatria

  Yesterday, for the first time ever, the British flag flew at the State Department in Washington, D. C. Our hearts go out to the people of London, to the dead, the wounded, and their loved ones. Alan Allport sensed rightly, I think, that pictures and verse speak better for us when our own words are inadequate.

• Jul 8, 2005
  

  The WHA -- Ex Post Facto

  by Cliopatria

  Well, my plans to blog the World History Association meeting in Ifrane, Morocco, came to naught... largely because it was such a great conference that between the excellent panels and the fabulous meals, I hardly had time to get online.
  
  A few highlights of the conference are worth noting, however. First, this was the most international of the WHA's conferences to date -- with scholars from 22 countries attending. Currently, the WHA holds conferenc
  

• Jul 8, 2005
  

  The Day After

  by Cliopatria

  “Intelligence officials were braced for an offensive - but lowered threat levels” reads the headline to the story in today’s Guardian, the implication clearly being that something nefarious was afoot. And yet is this really the case? It seems to me that the fact that British intelligence officials knew that at some point London would face some sort of attack does not mean that the general threat level would not v
  

• Jul 7, 2005
  

  The London Attacks -- First Impressions

  by Cliopatria

  At 8:49 a.m. today, England time, the first of seven explosions occurred in Center City London in a clearly coordinated effort to maim and murder civilians and to destroy London’s transportation and financial infrastructure. As of right now, the death toll is listed as 33, but we know that this is likely to rise as we learn more. This will go down as the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom, a region of the world that saw three decades of The Troubles in Northern Ireland t
  

• Jul 7, 2005
  

  London Pride

  by Cliopatria

  London Pride - Noel Coward, 1941.
  
  London Pride has been handed down to us.
  London Pride is a flower that's free.
  London Pride means our own dear town to us,
  And our pride it for ever will be.
  
  Woa, Liza, see the coster barrows,
  Vegetable marrows and the fruit piled high.
  Woa, Liza, little London sparrows,
  Covent Garden Market where the costers cry.
  
  Cockney feet mark the beat of history.
  Every street pins a me