Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Sunday, April 25, 2021

On the Afterlife of Photographic Subjects: A Strange Sub-Sub Genre on the Border of History and Journalism

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I just read the remarkable piece of journalism about the woman who was the subject of this famous photograph: It was written by Patricia McK...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

America! America outraged! America broken! America martyred! But America liberated!

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 A sneak preview of Biden's inaugural address in just over an hour:
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Some Historical Echoes Really Undermine Your Own Case

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Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. — George Wallace, 1963 Israel today, Israel tomorrow, Israel forever. — Rep...
Sunday, July 06, 2014

How to Survive

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Every time I rewatch the trailer for How to Survive a Plague (2012) — and I find it compulsively rewatchable; I keep playing it in the back...
Friday, May 30, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 10, Reaganomics & Domestic Policy in Reagan's First Term (Con't)

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Paint Reagan as the personification of all that is right with or heroized by America. Leave Mondale in a position where an attack on Reagan...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

"I could hardly be expected to stultify myself by implying that Joan's history in the world ended unhappily with her execution, instead of beginning there"

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Putting together a lecture on Gay Rights in the 1970s (for my class on the history of the US since 1973), I am, of course, including a subst...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Claiming Victim Status

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Unfortunately, claiming victim status does not itself bring sound ethical choices. Stalin and Hitler both claimed throughout their politica...
Monday, December 02, 2013

Michael Kammen (1936 - 2013)

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I returned from a Thanksgiving trip to the news that my graduate advisor, Michael Kammen, died last Friday.  I hope to write something soon ...
Friday, November 22, 2013

50 Years Ago Today

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Here is a short editor's note from the December 7, 1963 issue of The New Yorker .  As was their custom at the time, it was unsigned; but...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Seven Score and Ten Years Ago...

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...on this date, Abraham Lincoln said this: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, con...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Seven Songs Per Decade: 1970s (Part 1 of 4.5)

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In the spring, I am teaching I brand-new class, on the history of the United States from 1974 - 2014.  I am currently in the process of prep...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Quote of the Day

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To portray a lengthy ideological change or transition as an endogenous process is of course more complex than to depict it as the rise of a...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

A. Philip Randolph at the 1963 March on Washington

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I missed this in my earlier post rounding up commentary on the 50th anniversary of the March for Jobs and Freedom, but that's fine, bec...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

50th Anniversary of March on Washington Link Round-Up

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I'm teaching my seminar on "America in the Sixties" again this semester -- but, sadly, we just began and won't get to the ...
Monday, June 03, 2013

Epigraph to a Grave in Concord, Massachusetts

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God wills us free; man wills us slaves. I will as God wills; God's will be done. Here lies the body of JOHN JACK a native of Afric...
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Obama and Lincoln Analogies

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Obama came into office wanting to be Lincoln but ended up being McClellan instead.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Sentences One Finds Oneself Saying During Class

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Federalist 10 is about dealing with threats from the left; Federalist 51 is about dealing with threats from the right. (PS: Yes, I know ...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

January 20 is Inauguration Day

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...so why is this year's inauguration on Monday the 21st (the Martin Luther King holiday), and not the day before? It's for the sa...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013

"Forever Free": 150 Years Ago Today

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Lincoln wrote (and thus did*) this : Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vest...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Fact to Make You Feel Old, Stolen In Its Entirety from Randall Munroe

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Quoth Munroe : The first Star Trek episode aired closer in time to the ratification of the 19th Amendment—guaranteeing women in the US th...