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  • Jun 14, 2005

    The AAUP Targets CUNY

    by Cliopatria

    Lyndon Johnson once colorfully compared the Tonkin Gulf Resolution to his “grandmother’s nightgown,” in that “it covers everything.” Over the last 18 months or so, it seems as if the AAUP is verging toward a similar definition of academic freedom, at least for professors whose viewpoints are in the majority in today's academy. The group’s apparent unwillingness to concede that students have any academic freedom protections or that threats to academic freedom exist from inside the academy as well
  • Jun 14, 2005

    Battleship Potemkin

    by Cliopatria

    Lack of time means that this is going to have to be more in the shape of one of Ralph's More Noted Things ... than a full-fledged blog-post, but I thought I'd point out that today (with a little Julian calendar fudging) is the 100th anniversary of the mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin, so famously - and it turns out, misleadingly - celebrated in Eisenstein's film of 1925. The Independent's Andrew Osborn is in Odessa to commemorate and
  • Jun 13, 2005

    Good News for People Who Like Good News

    by Cliopatria

    Rebunk has been slow lately, and for good reason. The three original Rebunkers just congragated in Athens for Ohio University's graduation. On Friday Steve walked (after having officially received his PhD in August, 2004) as did Tom, who at that time received his PhD.

    This seems as good a time as any to share some good news on the Rebunk front.

    The most important news comes from Tom. In addition to receiving his degree (at only 28 years of age -- overachiever) Tom has received some

  • Jun 13, 2005

    Little Black Sambo

    by Cliopatria

    Over the weekend, Bruce Wallace reports in the LAT that The Story of Little Black Sambo is back on the best-seller list in Japan. Sambo entered the American lexicon as a racist caricature a long while before the publication of LBS in America in 1900, but the book, unfortunately, has co
  • Jun 13, 2005

    Cliopatria Welcomes Scott McLemee ...

    by Cliopatria

    Cliopatria is pleased to welcome Scott McLemee as a Contributing Editor. He really needs no introduction here. Scott is a critic and essayist with a particular interest in the intellectual history of American radicalism and counterculture. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The American Prospect, Bookforum, The Common Review, The Nation, Newsday, Salon, the Villa
  • Jun 12, 2005

    Additionally Noted ...

    by Cliopatria

    Lynching: Avis Thomas-Lester,"Repairing Senate's Record on Lynching," Washington Post, 11 June. On Monday, the Senate will adopt a resolution of apology for its failure to pass federal anti-lynching legislation, which was repeatedly stymied in the Senate by filibustering Southern Senators.

    Tagged: This meme spreads like the plague on the net. It just keeps going – like a chai

  • Jun 12, 2005

    Footnotes/Endnotes & Blogs

    by Cliopatria

    It has always been a source of irritation (and not a little frustration) to me that HTML or XHTML does not have a specification for an endnote or footnote—either its reference mark or its textual expression. This is a document element that scholars use all the time. Apparently, the W3C authors did not agree. As a result, endnote/footnotes are a challenge on the web. (If it is not a document element, what is it, then?) Like any good historian, I have my suspicions about the reasons for t

  • Jun 11, 2005

    A Conservative Road to Serfdom

    by Cliopatria

    As a Marxist, Eugene Genovese recognized the failure of the Soviet experiment as the decisive end of a road he had spent his life walking. But as he took in the disheartening failure in his own political neighborhood, he heard familiar sounds to his right. As he wrote in the curious The Southern Tradition:"The socialist debacle has exposed the false premise
  • Jun 11, 2005

    Yet, More Noted ...

    by Cliopatria

    Comparative Textbooks: Tristram Hunt,"Conscription of the Past," The Guardian, 11 June, compares the recent production of textbooks in Great Britain, India, Japan, and the United States, particularly with an eye to the future of common school history education in Great Britain. Thanks to Chris Pettit for the tip.

    Head Count:

  • Jun 10, 2005

    History Carnival #10: Send your nominations

    by Cliopatria

    The tenth History Carnival will be held at Spinning Clio on Wednesday 15 June.

    Email your nominations for recently published posts about history and related topics, which can be your own writing or that of other bloggers, to the host, Marc Comtois at: spinningclio AT hotmail DOT com (replace AT with @, DOT with . and close up the spaces), by 14 June. (I also recommend that you put"H
  • Jun 10, 2005

    9-11 and Lessons of the Past

    by Cliopatria

    Today's Times brings details of what could only be considered a colossal failure by the FBI in the months before 9/11. The FBI joins the FAA as the two federal agencies that seem to have done virtually nothing right in the run-up to the attacks.

    For those who missed it, Ernest May, senior consultant to the 9/11 Commission, penned a behind-the-scenes

  • Jun 10, 2005

    More Noted Yet ...

    by Cliopatria

    The Art of Invective: One of the downsides of flame wars is that they are predictably boring and lacking in imaginative rhetoric. Over at The Valve, Sean McCann gives us an offering by Eugene V. Debs on Theodore Roosevelt in January 1918:
    This political pet of the plutocrats, this bogus reformer, this shrieking charlatan, this raving mountebank, this crazy-hor
  • Jun 10, 2005

    Picture This! OAH Session Follow-Up, Part 1

    by Cliopatria

    OK, from the sublime to the mundane.

    Picture This! Part 1: The Polls, a preliminary analysis of the polls for the Picture This! OAH session, is available, at last. For those who are not familiar with the project, Picture This! was an experimental session that attempted to transcend the boundaries of a face-to-face conference session and to explore the relationship of design and histo

  • Jun 9, 2005

    Khalidi Accused ...

    by Cliopatria

    Just within the last 24 hours, accusations of plagiarism against Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University's Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature, have appeared on the net. The accusations seem first to have appeared yesterday in"Rashid Khalidi ... A Case of Plagiarism?" on Solomonia.com, a pseudonymous blog. It appears obvious from the blog post that a third party
  • Jun 9, 2005

    HNN "Breaking News" on Norman Finkelstein

    by Cliopatria

    Could someone please tell me who posted a Breaking News item with a quotation from and link to an article that calls Norman Finkelstein a "nazi"? I don't know what makes Finkelstein tick. But HNN listing headline news in the form of potentially libelous screeds is not something that I want to be affiliated with.

    Who, exactly, posts and screens the Breaking News items?