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Desegregation history
Eduwonkette made me wince a few weeks ago with her entry, Did School Integration Really Do Much Good? She quoted a relatively new economic study using Louisiana, but there’s a fairly sizable literature on this already, including classic works by Roz Mickelson and Jennifer Hochschild, among many many others. Yes, there is evidence of cognitive […]
Is Bush the worst?
I agree with K.C. Johnson: James Buchanan was a worse president than George W. Bush. I don’t agree with him on why historians are inclined to judge Bush worse than anyone else, but it is a bit disappointing to see a clear majority picking Bush. I mean, there are so many bad presidents from whom […]
Jim Anderson retrospective, part 2
A few days ago I described the 20th-anniversary Jim Anderson retrospective at AERA. Now it’s my turn to address some of the topics raised in that session, in a personal historiography, or my reading of The Education of Blacks in the South, originally published in 1988. For me, the thesis of the book was not […]
Jim Anderson retrospective, part 1
Last Tuesday in New York, a roundtable panel presented a 20-year retrospective on Jim Anderson’s The Education of Blacks in the South, 1865-1935, chaired by Joy Williamson (U. Washington). In this entry, I’ll summarize some of the perspectives of the panelists. In the next entry (tomorrow, I hope), I’ll present my personal engagement with the […]
When you make speeches the issue…
I don't generally talk about electoral politics in this blog, but yesterday's speech by Barack Obama strikes me as historic, whether or not Obama wins the Democratic party's nomination or the general election. Historians are often wrong in their predictions (we earn a rear-view mirror with that degree, not a crystal ball), but this is […]