Notes on History, Books, and Teaching
Jonathan Wilson,"Stet," The Elfin Ethicist, 9 July, cites a number of cases of rightwing revisionism. Shouldn't both do it and complain about it.
Having just closed one, Chris Bray,"Sleepless," Historiblogography, 9 July, remembers books that have kept him up all night. He invites you to remember in comments books that gave you sleepless nights.
The Cox Newspaper syndicate's"Leave or Die: America's Hidden History of Racial Expulsions" used a computer program to sort census data from 1870 to 1930. It found about 200 counties where black communities seemed to disappear from one decade to the next. There were normal explanations for many of the changes, but other disappearances were suspicious. Research and site visits narrowed the record search to about 100 counties where black populations were expelled, so the site's dozen instances isn't comprehensive. It might have included Levy County, Florida, for example. You have to register to view, but click around the site because there are a number of parts to its stories.
When Mark Bauerlein replies to Tim Burke, it could become a good conversation.
At edwired, Mills Kelly reflects on implementing what he's learned about"coverage,""uncoverage" and"think alouds" from Sam Wineburg's Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts and Lendol Calder's experience at Augustana College. See, for instance, Calder's syllabus for History 132 The United States: WWII to the Present.
Finally, don't miss Elias William Robinson's premier on the net. He's already teaching mom and dad about his love of jazz.