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George Tindall, 1921-2006
Southern historian George Tindall has died at 85. Ralph Luker has a very nice tribute to him (and great teaching stuff!) at Cliopatria. I remember being introduced to a wonderful stylist in The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945 (1967). When I initially read it, the first chapter (“In the House of their Fathers”) was […]
Ironic turns of phrase
From a friend who goes as kestrel’s nest: The phrase [“building a Red America”] caught me up short, remembering the jingos of my adolescence, one of which was “better dead than red” in reference to Communism. Back then, “Red” was synonymous with evil, anti-democratic, “anti-American” politics. Now it is used to mean “Republican, right-wing ‘ultra-American’ […]
Milton Friedman, 94
Noted economist Milton Friedman has died at age 94. (See a brief chronology at, what else, the Wall Street Journal.) It’s important to note the twists and turns that his proposal for vouchers has taken, from his main argument to replace all public schooling with vouchers to the Alum Rock non-experiment in the 1970s to […]
Trains! (conference liveblogging)
Back at the Social Science History Association for an early-morning Sunday session. Going to a session Sunday morning at 8:15 is one of those character tests, largely because a large chunk of a weekend conference has either left or is in the process of checking out of a hotel and getting to the airport. I’m […]
Race, ethnicity, and public audiences (conference liveblogging and random ruminations)
This afternoon, I’m at another paper session at the Social Science History Association (SSHA) meeting in Minneapolis. This paper session is about the construction of race relations and various constructors’ “publics.” (Audiences and Publics is the theme for this year, and a core of panels has this theme as the organizing concept.) (Session details in […]