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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Jon Stewart on the history of anti-immigrant hysteria
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19th-century nativism. "The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things" by Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly , 2 September 1871. Wikimedia...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Eric Hobsbawm, 1917-2012
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Eric Hobsbawm Wikimedia Eric Hobsbawm died this week on October 1st, after a long illness. I was going to say something about his inf...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Niall Ferguson, history, and punditry
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It looks as if Niall Ferguson has been caught being a bad boy , lying about his evidence, and for a Newsweek cover story no less! I never ...
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Scienciness and History: Cliodynamics
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There seems to be an uptick in historical studies by scientists (henceforth Scientists-Doing-History or SDH). I guess everyone wants to be...
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