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Oct 27, 2010

So You Want to be a History Professor?

by Cliopatria
Following on (and perhaps attempting to spunge off of) the viral success of "So You Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities" and "So You Want to Go to Law School," I humbly offer this:
- Oct 27, 2010
  
  Midweek Notes
  
  by Cliopatria
  
  Carnivalesque LXVII, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, is up at Blogenspiel!
  Laura Cumming for the Guardian, 1 August, and Richard Hamblyn,"
- Oct 26, 2010
  
  Thursday's Notes
  
  by Cliopatria
  
  The finalists for the National Book Awards have been announced. In nonfiction, they are: Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, John W. Dower's Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq, Patti Smith's Just Kids, Justin Spring's Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, and Megan K. Stack's Every Man in this Village Is a Liar: An Education in War.
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- Oct 26, 2010
  
  More Noted Things
  
  by Cliopatria
  
  Jonathan Gornall,"The real men of Harlech: the story of Rorke's Drift," The National, 22 October, reviews Ian Knight's Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift.
  Greg Beato,"The Original Mad Man," Reason, November, reviews Jeffrey L. Cruikshank's and Arthur W. Schultz's T
Oct 24, 2010

Sunday's Notes

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Ian Morris,"Latitudes not Attitudes: How Geography Explains History," History Today, 20 October, argues that geography blessed western civilization.
Edward Rothstein,"Abraham's Progeny, and Their Texts," NYT, 22 October, reviews"Three

Oct 23, 2010

Modern History Notes

by Cliopatria

Roger Morgan reviews Ernest R. May, Richard Rosecrance and Zara Steiner, eds., History and Neorealism for the THE, 21 October.
Kerry Brown reviews Michael Dillon's China: A Modern History for the THE, 21 October.
Daniel Mendelsohn,"

Oct 22, 2010

Friday's Notes

by Cliopatria

In Bettany Hughes,"Socrates – a man for our times," Guardian, 17 October, the author of The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life offers us a foretaste of her argument.
Daniel Mason,"Tormented by Proportion," Slate, 21 October, is a slide show that inquires into the sanity of the 18th century sculptor,

Oct 21, 2010

Thursday's Notes

by Cliopatria

The University of Virginia has released an internal audit of the Virginia Quarterly Review. It is critical of Ted Genoways' management of the journal, but stops short of citing him for bullying. Here are the Daily Progress's story and the audit.
Geraldine Fabrikant,"

Oct 20, 2010

More Noted Things

by Cliopatria

Tom Bartlett,"Alan Sokal, the 1996 Hoaxer, Takes Aim at an Accused Plagiarist at Rutgers," CHE, 14 October, looks at accusations against a Rutgers political scientist. I'd say: guilty as charged.
Adam Kirsch,"Counter-Revelations," Tablet, 19 October, reviews Robert Alter's new rendition of The Wisdom Books: Job

Oct 19, 2010

Things Noted Here & There

by Cliopatria

"Visuals and Representations," Giant's Shoulders #28, the history of science carnival, is up at Jai Virdi's From the Hands of Quacks.
For the Washington Post, 14 October, Michael Dirda reviews The Classical Tradition, edited by Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Se

Oct 18, 2010

Historical Nonsense Makes Political Madness

by Cliopatria

Joseph Palermo, an associate professor in the History Department at CSU Sacramento, writing in the Huffington Post this week:
Yet the American people seldom return to power the party of a president who just two years earlier had collapsed the economy. In 1934, they didn't pull the lever for the party of Herbert Hoover.

Oct 17, 2010

Double, Double Toil And Trouble: Or, Why Images Of Witch Burnings Are A Bad Idea Even When They Are History

by Cliopatria

Decades ago, feminists really cared about the casual use of images that exploited women's bodies or that used violence against women as a way to sell a product. A billboard that went up on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1975 was the catalyst for feminists to form Women Against Violence Against Women, the first of numerous groups in the United States, Canada and England that began to link the anti-battering movement to images that articulated violence against women as part of the status q

Oct 16, 2010

Your Behavior Has Tainted the Gods

by Cliopatria

Oh, children. Politics is no longer a noble profession. Don't you see what you've done?

David Brooks takes up a reliable theme in the Thursday New York Times, marking a politician's personal failures against the account of the fools who get to vote. I'm just guessing, but are newspaper columnists contractually required to lament the immaturity of the American rabble? Is there a rotating schedu

Oct 16, 2010

Inconvenient History

by Cliopatria

Foreign Affairs hosts a revealing exchange between Paul Berman and Jeffrey Herf on one side and Marc Lynch on the other, regarding Lynch’s critique of Berman’s recent book, Flight of the Intellectuals. In the end, alas, Lynch’s response only seems to bolster, rather than weaken, the Berman and Herf arguments.
Berman’s book uses the case of Tariq Ramadan

Oct 15, 2010

It's Quietly Judging You

by Cliopatria

History is cold, but it sees. It's like a patrician appellate panel that lives under the Arctic seas, sending up a periscope to see how the mortals are doing. And then it issues its decision. And man, does the underwater judicial circuit not love what it sees in John McCain. So pronounceth the reliably middlebrow Todd Purdum, the perfected embodiment of the permanent politica

Oct 13, 2010

Also, Obama Plays Solitaire Every Time Angela Lansbury Calls the White House

by Cliopatria

Stanley Kurtz has"spent the last two years in the archives." The results are the funniest thing you'll read today.

Oct 13, 2010

Midweek Notes

by Cliopatria

Robert Darnton,"Can We Create a National Digital Library?" NYRB, 28 October, is his opening talk for a Harvard conference on the subject. See also: Darnton,"A Library Without Walls," NYRBlog, 4 October.

Oct 12, 2010

Things Noted Here & There

by Cliopatria

Stephen Vizinczey,"In Praise of Older Books," Literary Review, October, argues that we should stand by the classics already in the literature.
Manjit Kumar reviews David Wootton's Galileo: Watcher of the Skies for the Telegraph, 10 October.

Oct 10, 2010

What is Our Work? Towards A Feminist Future in Education

by Cliopatria

This concludes a three part series on feminist education: you may want to read Part I and Part II first.

Gender inequality occurs in educational, and subsequently professional, atmospheres in which we have substantial evidence that men and women are equally able. The gender gap

Oct 10, 2010

Reefer Madness

by Cliopatria

The past is a troublesome little bugger, but it's easily fixed. Watch how easily Dennis Henigan does it this week at the Huffington Post (ellipsis in original):
The determination of NRA leaders to generate paranoia and hatred toward the government has gotten them into trouble before. In a now-infamous fundraising letter sent on April 13, 1995, LaPierre warned his members about t

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