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Recently on the Humanist Discussion Group, Willard McCarty posed a bit of a challenge. He explained “Recently I found myself in a hotel lift with a colleague who had attended the same conference but with whom I had not previously spoken. I asked him what he was working on, or interested in, or some such thing as that. He said, ‘I’m an historian — not a digital historian but a *real* historian.’” As is often true of Willard, he does not take us to the mundane challenge of how do we deal with this  »

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historicnews.blogspot.com - Peter L Twohig

Two black youth had had "several good natured tilts" but their final conflict ended with one fatally shooting the other young man. Ed Gilbert was put on trial for killing Mose White. The newspaper reported "The distinctive feature of the opening of the trial yesterday was the statement made by Gilbert to the jury, which was delivered in a sing-song tone." Source: Atlanta Constitution 19 April 1900.

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      The State of New Jersey cut the funding of all the public colleges and universities—my primary employers: an adjunct writing professor. I generally worked for at least two different schools per semester, accepting as many course offerings as I could juggle. There were always slots to fill, I’d

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ihrprojects.wordpress.com - Matt Phillpott

History SPOT will soon be home to training modules from the IHR Digital project (funded by JISC) HISTORE.  This project is developing short modules introducing various digital tools that might be of use to historians.  For instance, I’m currently working on the introduction pieces for a module on Text Mining.  This tool allows historians to search large corpuses of digitalized texts in a deeper and more meaningful way than an ordinary search engine could ever achieve on its own.  As part of the…  »

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The big news at this year’s meeting of the National Council on Public History was that the organization has come to a parting of ways with UC-Santa Barbara, the publisher of the Public Historian. Those interested can trawl through the archives for H-Public for details, but the short version is that

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The centenary of the introduction of the Government of Ireland Act, better known in Irish history as the Third Home Rule Bill, has passed without a great deal of notice in the Irish community, even though it essentially marks the beginning of a coming decade of similar centenaries emerging from the revolutionary period. The Third Home Rule Bill, for the uninitiated, was the third attempt by a liberal British government to introduce self-governance to Ireland. It followed two failures in 1886 and  »

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A brief survey of the recent academic literature on global history reveals an academy that is still trying to define a historiographical movement. Definitions abound, ranging from the vague – connecting world history, international history,

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historicnews.blogspot.com - Peter L Twohig

A farmer’s horse in Quebec crashed through the window of a local hotel. The son of the driver was injured. What was unreported in the paper was that a customer was overheard, just minutes before, ordering the horse (j/k). Source: Montreal Pilot 19 December 1857.

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The 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting was a terrific success! The city of Milwaukee did not disappoint the more than 2,200 attendees at this year’s joint conference with the National Council on Public History. The social media channels were buzzing as

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stillwaterhistorians.com - Rob Gee

From offthemark.com So let me see if I have this.  At Ant Spider Bee we have the beginnings of a debate that grew out of an ASEH panel in Madison earlier this month called “Beyond the Book.”  OAH panels from Milwaukee have further cast scrutiny upon digital history/humanities media as a means of reaching broader, more popular audiences, and last week’s episode of On The Media considered the future of the book, and of publishing in general.  Merle Massie is talking about reining in the “geek spe…  »

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History Associates open positions are listed here. The company provides professional historical research, histories, exhibit content, interpretive planning, archival services, and records management to clients throughout the United States and around the world. Nearly fifty employees serve corporate, government, legal, and nonprofit clients from our headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, with an office in Brea, California.

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Virtual exhibition gallery Introductory  Wall Text The Harlem Renaissance: A Social Documentary Through Art Carl Van Vechten, Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston, 1938 The Harlem Renaissance was a period of cultural revival for African Americans that lasted from the 1920s to the 1940s. During this period, blacks generated for themselves a sense of pride and identity through creative expression. Though the literary, musical, and artistic innovation was concentrated in Harlem, New York City, the pas…  »

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derekwatkins.wordpress.com - derekwatkins

This visualization shows how formal US territorial control expanded in North America from 1700 to 1900, as seen through changes in the spatial distribution of post offices: (HD and 1080p download here. It’s much prettier!) A few months ago, I scraped post office location information from the USPS Postmaster Finder, and then extracted lat/long coordinates  by correlating placenames to the USGS GNIS. Recently I remembered I had this data sitting around. I’ve been experimenting with Processing a …  »

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Rebecka Black, Op-Ed Columnist April 2012 April 2012 marks the anniversary of two important events in British history. Both important moments unfortunately were the product of neglect and extreme arrogance and both moments are still arguably misrepresented today: the sinking of the RMS Titanic and the liberation of the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Both historic tragedies deserve remembrance but each has lost elements of its truth and has been victimized by what is considered, by many, a…  »

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historyinthecity.blogspot.com - Prof M

Who are #twitterstorians v #digitalhumanities starts here. Results from yesterday showed #digitalhumanities slightly more active than #twitterstorians (about 10% more tweets), but other than that the two #hashtags are superficially quite similar in number of users, number of RT and links tweeted. Questions for today are #twitterstorians and #digitalhumanities distinct or overlapping communities?  Why does #digitalhumanities feel more interactive to me? I went back to my original spreadshe…  »

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infographic top #twitterstorians conversationalists http://t.co/09WrMIN7 @textilehistorIE @effortlesszone @ryancordell http://t.co/uIdjj5GB

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us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com - Andrew Hartman

My OAH experience this year was short but sweet. My panel, "Advise and Dissent: Intellectuals, Values, and Postwar Conservative Trajectories," which took place on Thursday, was a huge success by my account. Chaired by J. David Hoeveler (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), it included excellent papers by Gregory Schneider (Emporia State University), who talked about Stephen Tonsor, and Lisa Szefel (Pacific University, the next S-USIH treasurer), who presented on Peter Viereck. I gave a paper on …  »

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neverfeltbetter.wordpress.com - HandsofBlue

Ireland in 1361 was an island in two halves. One half, centred around the “Pale” region with some loyal Earldoms surrounding it, was under English control to a recognisable extent. The other half had fallen back into the hands of Irish Kings (or had never left their control, the O’Neill’s of Ulster essentially becoming monarchs of the province), with what was left in the possession of the Anglo-Irish or “Old English”, those descendents of the initial Norman conquest who had been in Ireland so l…  »

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nytimes.com - By CHARLIE SAVAGE

With Congressional Republicans blocking his agenda, the president has been using executive powers to enact measures: on the environment, education, drug shortages and making recess appointments.

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Here’s the second half of the lecture I gave last weekend at the Monsters and Myths in the Making Conference at the University of Florida. I had such a great time, saw some former grad students and ate some good … Continue reading →

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Devo-max, full independence, or greater fiscal responsibility; learn all you need to know about the referendum on Scottish independence being planned by Alex Salmond’s SNP

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historicnews.blogspot.com - Peter L Twohig

Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth wrote a good deal about the poor and the working class. Indeed, his work was cited in Engels’ Condition of the Working Class in England (1844). In this piece, James Kay (as he was known) mused upon the "cost of living in our artificial society." He was critical of the pursuit of luxury and the distraction it posed to higher pursuits. "The sweat of his brain ought to be spent for something better than merely to live in a fashionable square, to dress his family in the n…  »

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jacksonianamerica.com - Mark R. Cheathem

 Which do you prefer? Just to make sure we’re on the same page (pun intended), footnotes are citations at the bottom of pages; chapter endnotes are citations at the end of each chapter; and book endnotes are citations compiled at the end of the book, usually prior to the bibliography. Personally, I love footnotes. Being [...]

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In 1910 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá asks Louis Gregory, an African American lawyer from Washington, DC, about the interracial conflict in America.

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My relations with Tony Judt date back a long time but they were curiously contradictory. We were friends, though not intimate ones, and while both of us were politically committed historians, and both preferred wearing informal gear as historians rather than regimental uniform, we marched . . .

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stillwaterhistorians.com - Rob Gee

  Each of the documents shown in this post can be found in RG 1 vol. 256 nos. 166-177 MF Reel 15350, Public Archives of Nova Scotia. Click to enlarge image. Since my trip out to Ketch Harbour last week, that I documented in Ground-truthing Portuguese Cove and Ketch Harbour, I returned to the archives with a different set of filters.  Because these communities were so small, and existed on land so ill-suited for other purposes, it seemed to me that pretty much any material I could dredge up ab…  »

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Kate Bradley, University of Kent Gender is central to an understanding of voluntary action history, as it confronts us the moment we ask the question of who does what to whom.  In one respect, gender will be well-known territory to readers of this blog.  A now canonical body of work on the history of charity and campaigning in modern Britain points to the creation of the public sphere in the eighteenth century, and the exclusion of women from certain kinds of participation in the public realm. …  »

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historiann.com - Historiann

Nota Bene:  This is a post of interest mostly to American historians, although I would certainly welcome the thoughts of other historians about the role of place or geography in their sub-fields. Here’s my question:  is there any such thing as regionalism in American history any longer?  Northeastern history was always a regional history, but historians (many of whom lived in and/or trained in the northeast) for the most part denied that it was a regional history and instead claimed to be writi…  »

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carolineshenton.co.uk - CarolineShenton

Historical research doesn’t seem, on the face of it, to be a risky activity.  Compared with mining, deep-sea pearl fishing, mountain rescue or identifying mysterious biological agents  it isn’t - obviously.  But there are physical risks, and here are just some of them. 1.  Lifting Heavy Boxes and Volumes Manual handling training is compulsory for archivists and librarians who need [...]

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Look on it as a course in Kenyan citizenship THE notion that they were relatively benign players in Europe’s imperial scramble is one of the foundation myths of British identity—for many white Britons, any

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After 70 years, two papers on the theory of code breaking by mathematician Alan Turing are released to the National Archives.

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stillwaterhistorians.com - Katherine O’Flaherty

Check out the 2012 national competition here: http://www2.archivists.org If you have not checked out the Society of American Archivists (SAA) national competition: I Found it in the Archives!, I encourage you to take a look. Eight finalists wrote essays and produced short videos about their archival discoveries and are now vying for the top spot. The winner will be chosen based on popular vote so click the link above and vote for the story you like best. It is not surprising that this competiti…  »

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telegraph.co.uk - Adam Lusher

A Lincolnshire farmer has told how he spent 15 years trying to find a lost squadron of Spitfires that was buried in Burma at the end of the Second World War.

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us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com - L.D. Burnett

Today’s New York Times reports the passing of Charles W. Colson.  I don’t usually think about Charles Colson, but I was just thinking of him yesterday. Among the primary sources I was considering for my U.S. intellectual history reading list was Mary McCarthy’s shrewd shredding of the smaller-than-life players in the Watergate scandal, The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits (1974).  However, McCarthy’s sharp, smart text ended up on the cutting-room floor.  I crossed it off just yesterday morn…  »

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nytimes.com - By EDMUND MORRIS

In trying to popularize its crown jewel, the New York Public Library could destroy it.

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graecomuse.wordpress.com - GraecoMuse

When I woke up this morning I had one of my unfortunate and very painful migraines, oh my! Pain pounding in my temples and the feeling of a truck’s worth of cotton wool being pressed into the back or my … Continue reading →

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Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have an illustrious predecessor: In 1790, the very first Congress—which incidentally included 20 framers—passed a law that included a mandate: namely, a requirement that ship owners buy medical insurance for their seamen. This law was…

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The story of Alan Turing has a hold on the world’s imagination. A Northerner post on the subject in January was the most-viewed item on the Guardian’s whole website that week. Now the chair of the centenary…

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Through the Blitz and on through the years of rationing The Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. Co-author Nuala Calvi explains how in this guest blog. People often ask: "Who are the Sugar Girls?" No, they’re not another Nineties girl band–but they did have their own brand of Girl Power. The Sugar Girls were the young women who worked in Tate & Lyle’s two East End factories in the Forties and Fifties–making and filling the sugar bags and the green-and-gold tins of Lyle’s Golden Syrup. But being a…  »

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The thrilling but largely unknown story of the day in 1834 that the 800 year-old Houses of Parliament burned down – an event that was as shocking and significant to contemporaries as the death of Princess Diana was to us at the end of the 20th century.

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Photograph – Cashel Street, looking east [192-?] , Christchurch City Libraries Heritage Photograph Collection

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The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) provides resources for historians, including a major open access library, digital projects, seminars and lectures, conferences, books and journals,podcasts and Ma/PhD study and research training.

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jliedl.ca - J Liedl

I’m wrapping up the 2011-12 term this month. One aspect that’s felt luxurious has been my seminar. It’s both been a good class and a small class with under twenty in either term. (Pro tip to faculty wanting to shrink their course sizes: schedule your class for 8:30 on Friday and then have the registrar screw up the listing to suggest it starts at 8:00. You’ll scare all but the determined or the desperate away!) Next year, the picture is bleak. Due to budget constraints and sabbaticals, we’re of…  »

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io9.com - Lauren Davis

In 1998, a group called the Friends of Benjamin Franklin House began renovations on Franklin’s London residence, No. 36 Craven Street, and discovered a nasty surprise: 1,200 pieces of bone from 10 bodies, six of which were children. And the bodies were buried in the basement around the time Franklin was living in the house. More »

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Previously on Motte and Bailey: The intrepid duo have arrived at Castle Fillion, home of Baron Camelotto-Rollovyr, in connection with a mysterious death. Scene 2: At the castle gate BARON: Welcome!…

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andrewdsmith.wordpress.com - andrewdsmith

Let me rephrase this question to be more precise: What was the (Economic) Value of a History Degree to Someone in the UK Labour Market in between 2001 and 2011? The short answer is that we don’t really know. However, statistics recently released by the UK’s ONS show that average hourly earnings for people who hold degrees in the “social studies” category are £16.33, whereas people with “humanities” degrees earn, on average, just  £14.63 per hour.  Given that history is described as a social sci…  »

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