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Veterans Day
My father was a veteran, the base pediatrician for George AFB in the late 1950s. My maternal grandfather was a veteran, cooking for troops in Europe after the WW1 armistice. I’m not a veteran, and neither are any of my siblings or my cousins. We came of age in Vietnam and then held our breath […]
Roy Rosenzweig
T. Mills Kelly has the best remembrance of Roy Rosenzweig today. Rosenzweig was a pioneer in digital history who began the Center for History and New Media (see the original page). (Hat tip.)
Call for papers: Politics, Activism, and the History of America’s Public Schools
Forwarded from an e-mail, an opportunity for graduate students and new scholars in the history of education. “Politics, Activism, and the History of America’s Public Schools”A Conference Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of The Irony of Early School Reform, April 12, 2008 University of Pennsylvania Upon its publication, Professor Michael B. Katz’s The Irony of Early […]
Don’t get mad; get historiographical
The New York Times preview of Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms has prompted a flurry of responses by people who haven’t yet read the book. Hrrmrmrmrm… Obviously, it’s touched a nerve among historians, perhaps moreso than the flurry responding to Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel. Both books are orthogonal looks at the “rise […]
Raul Hilberg, 81
Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg died over the weekend. I never met him, but he deeply affected my understanding of history and human cruelty. As a child raised in a American Jewish household in the 1960s and 1970s, I was exposed to the first generation of Holocaust education. (I didn’t know until a few years ago […]