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mcheathem.wordpress.com - Mark R. Cheathem

British historian Darren Reid recently interviewed me for his blog, The History Journal. I appreciate his willingness to offer my thoughts on the Jacksonian period, teaching, and my research.

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thesocraticdilemma.blogspot.com - M. H. Beals

As part of my continuing efforts to improve undergraduate academic writing, I recently applied to the Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning for a small grant from their Staff-Student Collaboration fund. I am very pleased to announce that this application has been successful. Thus, over the next 15 weeks, I will provide occasional updates on the project alongside my regular musings at The Socratic Dilemma.  The project, entitled Social Writing, aims to provide first-year students within …  »

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There are people who live long enough to create a link — a one-generation link — to figures from what feels like a distant past. And their presence among us shrinks history.

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theatlantic.com - Raj Patel

If public health is a legitimate reason to curb corporations’ advertising to kids, why limit bans to cigarettes, booze, and toys in happy meals, and not include, say, all unhealthy food? In the fall of 2008, San Francisco polished its progressive credentials by banning something. From October 1, 2008, the sale of cigarettes was prohibited in certain places. You could still buy them in convenience stores, of course, and bodegas, gas stations, and even the occasional bar. But the city thought t…  »

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erikafranz.wordpress.com - Erika Franz

On the way down to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo holiday Zoolights festival, I had a conversation with my sister-in-law about why she disliked zoos and aquariums (and for similar reasons the study of anthropology, but I disagree with her premises, so we’ll just skip it this time).  The gist of it was that she would rather experience a giraffe sighting in its natural environment than on display in a zoo.  In fact, she would simply rather experience the world than see it on display. Roman road…  »

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theatlantic.com - Rebecca J. Rosen

The world of academic scholarship — particularly the field of history — has at times had a strained relationship with the massive collaborative project that is Wikipedia. In 2007, for example, the history department at Middlebury College banned citations to the encyclopedia. How could the free-for-all of the web produce a reliable source? It was thought to be too susceptible to inaccuracy, whether as the result of malicious or ideological manipulation or just pure sloppiness. Although some of…  »

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thelede.blogs.nytimes.com - By ROBERT MACKEY

A 90-year-old convicted Nazi war criminal claims that the journalists violated his privacy by using a hidden camera to record an interview with him.

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arstechnica.com - Scott K. Johnson

I’m not a big guy. It doesn’t take a tremendous shove to send me crashing to the floor. But what does it take to knock the Earth’s climate off balance? In the case of the Little Ice Age, a recent 400-year cold snap, a new study suggests a few well-timed volcanic eruptions might have done the trick. Major glacial periods are controlled by the Earth’s orbit. Summer temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere have been on a slow decline for the last 8,000 years as the orbital precession cycle pushed s…  »

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markstoneman.com - Mark R. Stoneman

One topic that I keep coming back to in my own thinking is the role of civilians in war, in particular relations between soldiers and civilians from opposite sides of a war in a combat zone or occupied territory. This goes back to my MA thesis from 1994, which resulted in a couple articles. I don’t see much more happening on the Franco-Prussian War at the moment, but my ears do perk up when related material comes up, and it won’t surprise me if I end up blogging about it here. To put that in co…  »

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thetouroftheworld.org - Cobo

[34r continued] It so happened that I was reminded there of some excellent advice I received in Seville once from that great Christian Alonso de Andrade. This was advice which I remembered all my life, and which anyone who leaves their homeland would be well advised to remember. When I was leaving for the galleys, doña Isabel de Velasco (the wife of the aforementioned Alonso), gave me a purse with two hundred escudos, and with it some advice, saying, as she tied the purse shut, that I should not  »

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At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the West. This ‘modern woman’ archetype was also penetrating into Eastern cultures, however, challenging the Chinese and Japanese historical norm of the woman as homemaker, servant or geisha. Through a focus on the writings of the Western women who engaged with the Far East, and the Eastern writers and personalities who reacted to this new global gender communication by forming their…

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historyinanhour.com - Rupert Colley

Eva Braun was born this day, 6 February, 100 years ago. Eva Braun first met Hitler whilst working as an assistant and model to Hitler’s official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman. It was 1929 and she was 17, Hitler 40. At the … Continue reading →

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historyandthesockmerchant.blogspot.com - Alan Flower

By Size? Period? Read vs Unread? Topic? An arrangement of books that just looks good? What’s the best way to organise a history bookshelf? Is there a tried and tested way out there that combines perfectly practicality with aesthetics? You all know what I’m talking about, there is no historian out there who has not, at some point, lamented the demise of high-street book shops because, unlike online shops, it gives us the opportunity to go in and caress and ogle aesthetically pleasing history  »

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phdpanacea.wordpress.com - sallyosborn

If you’re feeling the cold today, spare a thought for poor old Elizabeth Woodcock, who was ‘buried under the snow for eight days and nights, without food’ (as if that was the worst of her worries!), at Impington, in Cambridgeshire’ in February 1799. She lived on until July of that year, ‘but her hands remain contracted together, in the act of prayer, and no art can move them.’ It was a bad month, particularly for those trying to travel: The Newmarket road, near Bourn-bridge, was so impassable, …  »

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mhbeals.blogspot.com - M. H. Beals

Nominations for Carnivalesque #80 (Early Modern Edition) are now open! Carnivalesque, a blog carnival dedicated to pre-modern history, will be flitting its way to Demography and the Imperial Public Sphere before Victoria this February 18th. So, if you have read or written a particularly interesting blog post on the early modern period (1500-1800) this winter, please visit http://carnivalesque.org/nomination-form-earlymodern/ to nominate its inclusion or drop me a line and link at m[dot]beals[…  »

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mhbeals.blogspot.com - M. H. Beals

Demography and the Public Sphere relies upon the collection and analysis of a huge amount of raw, qualitative data. In order to effectively demonstrate dissemination pathways, I must provide evidence of quotations, paraphrasing and outright plagiarism in the Georgian Imperial Press. When working a short span of time or a few newspapers, this can be done manually, by checking each new article against existing database entries for similarities. When consulting a corpus that spans 34 years and doz…  »

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January 22, 1939 Assistant Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr. Department of Anthropology Chapman Hall 227B Marshall College Dr. Jones: A…

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historyinanhour.com - Rupert Colley

Sixty years ago today, on 6 February 1952, Britain’s King George VI died. Sinead Fitzgibbon summarises the life of the reluctant king. Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George the second son of George V and Queen Mary of Teck, was born … Continue reading →

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vahs.org.uk - gcgosling

Robert Howes, King’s College London Voluntary action amongst openly LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) people began in the 1960s.  Prior to 1967, male homosexuality in the UK was illegal both in public and in private.  Any man who formally identified himself as homosexual was effectively admitting to being a criminal unless he could prove life-long chastity.  The Homosexual Law Reform Society (HLRS) was formed in 1958.  Although many homosexuals were members, including its influential secr…  »

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jobs.ac.uk – Search 1000′s of science, research and academic related vacancies in the UK and abroad. Updated daily, easy to use job search and a free Jobs by Email service.

7 February 2012 Share:

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thesocraticdilemma.blogspot.com - M. H. Beals

It always happens. I receive my students’ essays. I mark them. I print a sign-up sheet for feedback sessions and affix it to my office door. I email my students to let them know. Perhaps 15% of my students sign up for session. One of the most common complaints lecturers in the UK receive is that they do not provide sufficient feedback on assessed work. I simply do not understand it. I provide nearly a page of commentary for each essay I mark and sit patiently in my office for hours (and hou…  »

1 February 2012 Share:

wienerlibrary.co.uk

Contemporary history library and archive in London focusing on the Holocaust, its causes, legacies and contemporary Jewish history.

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Find Twitter celebrities, actors, TV personalities, or new Twitter friends in your area. WeFollow is a directory of Twitter users organized by interests. Find likeminded friends today!

26 January 2012 Share:

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Among the most visited collections in the Hagley Digital Archives is the DuPont Magazine. An internal publication of the Company for nearly a century (1913 to 2003), the magazine is an important source for anyone studying the evolution of DuPont … Continue reading →

26 January 2012 Share:

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The participation of alumni in HE governance was a common feature of 19th century universities. Tamson Pietsch explores how this model could help 21st century institutions

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kcet.org - Ed Fuentes

Since 1978, the mini-documentary "The Great Wall of Los Angeles," directed by Social Public Art and Resource Center co-founder and filmmaker Donna Deitch, has been used as a calling card. It’s screened to introduce SPARC’s mission to new staff members, UCLA students beginning their studies at SPARC’s Digital Mural Lab, and guests interested in the work of the public art institution. In a tidy 12 minutes and 22 seconds, this early work by Deitch exemplifies two important SPARC processes: engagi…  »

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fusilier.wordpress.com - John Maass

  “The Long Struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1750-1815” October 26-27, 2012 Louisville, Kentucky Conference Conveners: François Furstenberg, (Université de Montréal, Department of History) Eric Hinderaker (University of Utah, Department of History) The Filson Institute for the Advanced Study of the Ohio Valley and the Upper South proposes a two-day academic conference to examine the long contest for the Ohio Valley between 1750 and 1815. The conference, which will take place in Louisville, Kentuck…  »

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britishscholar.org - bryanglass

Professor T. M. Devine, Chair of The British Scholar Society’s Advisory Board, is the recipient of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Beltane Senior Prize for Public Engagement 2012.  The award, according to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, is “to ‎recognise and promote excellence in public engagement with research; fostering a culture in ‎which researchers consider good communication an integral part of their work.”  On winning the award, Professor Devine stated that “I am deeply honoured to be a…  »

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thesocraticdilemma.blogspot.com - M. H. Beals

When it comes to teaching in higher education, I have undertaken a great deal of training. I have completed a two-year postgraduate certificate from my own institution as well as bespoke training from several other organisations. In about 50-65% of these programme I received a photocopy of Bloom’s Taxonomy. This handy pyramid is meant to represent the levels of a learners’ understanding. You’ll notice that remembering, or recall knowledge, is firmly at the bottom of the pyramid. I have often …  »

26 January 2012 Share:

thetouroftheworld.org - Cobo

[32r continued] Chapter XIV: Wherein is told the rest of this story, and all that happened to me until I sailed and arrived in Cartagena. Although it is important not to lose track of the story in minutia, I must mention some things before proceeding to greater ones, so that it is clear how a devotion to the Holy Souls of Purgatory and the Holy Cross delivers one from all dangers. I mentioned how don Francisco came [32r] to me to apologise, obeying his father. When he did, he gave me satisfacti…  »

26 January 2012 Share:

theatlantic.com

Comfortable History is like the computer virus that poses as the shield — it positions the espouser as a brave truth-teller, even as it infects us with lies.

26 January 2012 Share:

history.ac.uk

Launched in 1996, this e-journal publishes reviews and reappraisals of significant work in all fields of historical interest.

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NPR got a rare behind-the-scenes look at the CIA’s Open Source Center, where research analysts troll social media for a new kind of secret — those hiding in plain sight. Nowadays, CIA analysts are also under more pressure to identify potential crises, with as little as a tweet or a status update to go on.

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mhbeals.blogspot.com - M. H. Beals

To appear shortly in Britain and the World 5:1 (2012): 159–161 After two decades of research on Martineau, and having edited over a dozen volumes of her writings, Logan approaches her newest work with a clear and intimate knowledge of her subject, her strengths and failings, her insights and prejudices. So armed, she seeks to unpack Martineau’s hopes and trepidations over imperial expansion, using the space and time afforded a monograph to reconcile Martineau’s distaste for naked imperialism w…  »

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turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.com - David Turner

The early 20th century saw an increase in the amount of promotional material British railway companies produced. One form this took was the postcard, packs of  which could be purchased from vending machines at stations. Indeed, between 1899 and 1903 eight companies produced them. All those shown were sold by the London and North Western Railway and have images of the company’s trains and rolling stock. However, in addition to this, the packs contained images of resorts and districts the railways  »

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gildedempire.wordpress.com - Calhistorian

Pioneers, Gold, and Urban Collective Identity in American San Francisco: I have spent three days reading a few of San Francisco’s … Continue reading »

26 January 2012 Share:

bbc.co.uk

The story of Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who spent nearly three decades hiding in the jungles of Guam after the end of World War II.

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opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com - By FRANK JACOBS

Pheasant Island is owned for six months a year by France, six months by Spain. But no one is allowed to set foot on it.

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teachingunitedstateshistory.blogspot.com - Edward J. Blum

Hey all, quick announcement. Gale Kenny, whose excellent blog entries here discussed her use of blogs for her fall courses, has started a new blog on research: how to, what not to do, and the entire experience. Here’s the link: http://intothearchives.wordpress.com/ 

26 January 2012 Share:

britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

Whether you are a researcher, historian or you simply want to know more about Britain’s history, take this fantastic opportunity to search this vast treasure trove of historical newspapers from your own home.

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historyworkshop.org.uk - Lorna

‘The Past in Today’s Politics: A Debate on the State of History-Writing as a Political Act’ 5th March 2012 6pm – 8pm Eliot Room, British Library Conference Centre 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB A panel debate hosted by the Raphael Samuel History Centre and the British Library Is there a place for politics in academic historical research? A generation ago historians were at the forefront of political debates on hot topics such as gender, class, sexuality, race, health and peace campaigning. Radic…  »

26 January 2012 Share:

io9.com

Here are some snapshots from a dark chapter in American history. Throughout the 19th century, San Francisco’s growing Chinese immigrant population had to contend with codified prejudice from legislation like the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, segregated communities, and the sentiment that Chinese-Americans were the source of leprous, smallpox, and malarial "vapors."

26 January 2012 Share:

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Friday 25th May Newcastle University School of Historical Studies Postgraduate Forum Annual Conference This conference will address the concept of remembrance and memory. Each discipline approaches remembrance and memory in different ways. The terms might mean different things to different scholars, whether it be; an academic biography, the study of religious continuity or the re-use of monuments or artefacts. This conference will be concerned with how memory is materialised throughout the human  »

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wallbuilders.com

Issues and Articles – Deconstructionism and the Left,An article defining and explaining Deconstructionism.

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doodle.com

Doodle helps scheduling meetings and other appointments. Doodle is simple, quick, free and requires no registration. Simply set up a poll, send a link to all participants, watch progress online, and finally choose the most suitable date.

20 January 2012 Share:

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katrinagulliver.posterous.com

During the excitement of the 2012 American Historical Association conference, I won a prize! The Cliopatria Awards are given by History News Network annually for the best in history blogging. For the first time, an award was given for best history-related twitter feed. And I won!! I was thrilled by the recognition, and am wondering if there is some way to spin this as peer-review for career value. More importantly, my follower list has grown, and I meet more and more #twitterstorians. During …  »

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historianess.wordpress.com

hiˈstorianess n. rare a female historian. "She is a great historianess, a most charming delightful woman."

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jobs.ac.uk – Search 1000′s of science, research and academic related vacancies in the UK and abroad. Updated daily, easy to use job search and a free Jobs by Email service.

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mhbeals.blogspot.com - M. H. Beals

When I first immigrated to Scotland, I began to watch a Scottish comedy programme entitled Chewin’ the Fat. Among the manifold characters was a entrepreneur who was attempting to sell dubiously procured sports socks, two for a pound. He appeared only once or twice, but his uncanny resemblance to the real-life entrepreneurs I passed on my journeys through Glasgow made him particularly memorable. Many years later, as I sit before an 1800-edition of the Glasgow Advertiser, I am somewhat shocked to…  »

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gildedempire.wordpress.com - Calhistorian

A Few Quick Thoughts on Digital History & Digital History Commons: It has been one of my goals with this blog … Continue reading »

14 January 2012 Share:

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‘The Tsar’s Court under the Romanov Dynasty’ exhibit, now on loan from the Kremlin’s treasury to Prague Castle, the seat of the Czech presidency, offers an exceptional window into the life, times and wealth of the Romanov Dynasty. The idea for this exhibition came out of a 2009 meeting in Moscow between Czech President Vaclav Klaus and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

14 January 2012 Share:

historyinthecity.blogspot.com - Prof M

In May of 1977 the performance artist Suzanne Lacy coordinated a city wide event designed to raise awareness about rape.  I’ve written about Three Weeks In May before. Currently Lacy is "re-creating" her piece,* which works out quite nicely for my work in which I consider pastpresents and history making ( and a big hello to all the students assigned to write about this piece.  Please don’t plagiarize!). I ruminated a bit about reenactment of history in Lacy’s work before here and here, which I  »

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thetouroftheworld.org - Cobo

[24v] Chapter XI: Wherein the last calamities that befell us on that island are told, as well as the miracle with which Our Lord delivered us Everything I have mentioned, that is, all the trials we experienced in Bermuda, such as sleeping on the ground, eating poorly, having little hope of escaping, and another thousand calamities and miseries – did not even come close to the despair we felt when, on the first and second day, those whom we had sent to find water returned with news that there was  »

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