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NOMINATIONS FOR 2010 ARE NOW CLOSED Look for the announcement of the winners in January at Cliopatria
Please submit, in comments below, your nominations for the best single post on a history blog since 1 December 2009. [registration not required to post nominations, but the usual rules of civility and conduct still apply] Nominations will be accepted from November 1st through 30th.
Please include a URL for post you are nominating (not just a URL for the blog). You may nominate as many posts or series as you wish in this category, and you may nominate individual blogs or bloggers in other categories as well.
Bloggers do not need to be academic historians. If you're not sure whether a blog or blogger qualifies as"history," nominate them anyway and the judges will make a final determination. If you have questions, feel free to contact Ralph Luker or leave a comment here.
Judging Committee: David Silbey (Chair), Ian Lekus, and Rick Herrera. [Judges are ineligible to win awards they are judging, but feel free to nominate them for something else!]
I am nominating one of my favorite blogs, one which was neither published elsewhere, nor leftover from grad school, nor taken from my book on the Melville Revival. It can be found here: http://clarespark.com/2009/11/17/melencolia-i-and-the-apocalypse-1938/. It has broad implications for the teaching of the humanities.
I would like to nominate Karlee Sapoznik's "“When People Eat Chocolate, They Are Eating My Flesh”: Slavery and the Dark Side of Chocolate," ActiveHistory.ca, 30 June 2010
Is it acceptable to nominate your own posts? I write for a libertarian transportation/land use blog, and while most of what I write is current events, I wrote about the history of streetcars in America in a poste entitled "The Great American Streetcar Myth", in which I took issue with both the standard liberal line that streetcars were killed by greedy corporations and the conservative line that rail lost out in the free market against roads. Here's the link again, and the blog is called Market Urbanism:
This is a fantastic read on a speech given by Noah Webster on July 4, 1802. He addresses some issues among the citizenry and how the republic is going to last.
