2006 Cliopatria Awards Nominations: BEST NEW BLOG

jdresners blog

2006 Nominations are Now Closed, thanks.
Look for the winners in January!

Please submit, in comments below, your nominations for the best new blog by historians or about history created since 1 December 2005. [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 the blog(s). You many nominate as many blogs as you wish in this category, and you may nominate individual posts or bloggers in other categories as well.

If you want ideas of blogs or writers to nominate, see the History Blogroll or past editions of the History Carnival or its related carnivals.

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 the chair of the committee:

Judging Committee: Rob MacDougall (chair), Caleb McDaniel, Miriam Burstein. [Judges are ineligible to win awards they are judging, but feel free to nominate them for something else!]

GO TO: 2006 Nominations Index, Best Group Blog, Best Individual Blog, Best New Blog, Best Post, Best Series of Posts, Best Writer

NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED

Submitted by jdresner on Fri, 2006-12-01 14:41.

Thanks for all the suggestions! Look for the winners at Cliopatria in January!

Civil War Memory

Submitted by Kevin (not verified) on Thu, 2006-11-30 08:28.

My blog was nominated for Best Individual Blog, but it is also falls into the category of Best New Blog.

Hope a self-nominations is allowed.

Babel's Dawn

Submitted by saberhagen427 on Wed, 2006-11-29 14:35.

http://ebbolles.typepad.com/babels_dawn/

Not sure if this meets your definition of history, but it's astoundingly good, and the origin of speech has some important implications for historians.

AHA Today

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2006-11-29 10:37.

http://blog.historians.org/

Great War Fiction

Submitted by bholman on Wed, 2006-11-29 00:36.

http://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com/

Investigations of a dog

Submitted by Sharon Howard (not verified) on Thu, 2006-11-23 18:14.

http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/

Bread and Circuses http://www.adrianmurdoch.typepad.com/bread_an

Submitted by S Atkinson (not verified) on Sat, 2006-11-18 08:35.

Adrian Murdoch’s Bread and Circuses http://www.adrianmurdoch.typepad.com/bread_and_circuses/
was launched in January 2006, focusing specifically on late antiquity issues. Written by a professional journalist and classical historian, Bread and Circuses is a scholarly, well-written and humorous blog that provides comment and is updated daily.

Digital History Hacks

Submitted by robmacdougall on Mon, 2006-11-13 23:41.

Am I allowed to make nominations to this category? Is it kosher for me to nominate a colleague? I'm not sure, but DHH <http://digitalhistoryhacks.blogspot.com/>; needs to be on this list. Other people talk about history on the internet; Bill Turkel does something about it.

In the middle

Submitted by Sharon Howard (not verified) on Mon, 2006-11-13 18:39.

http://jjcohen.blogspot.com/

Obscene Desserts

Submitted by Sharon Howard (not verified) on Mon, 2006-11-13 04:16.

http://obscenedesserts.blogspot.com/

Boston 1775

Submitted by Jonathan Wilson (not verified) on Sat, 2006-11-11 18:02.

I would like to nominate http://boston1775.blogspot.com/

The Cannon's Mouth

Submitted by Barbara Dundas (not verified) on Thu, 2006-11-09 22:38.

The Cannon's Mouth (http://www.cannonsmouth.ca) is a blog for Canadian military historians and is about their projects and other interesting bits of information. The blog was inspired by an irregular print publication of the same name which has been out of print for several years but takes advantage of the nature of the medium in that it is updated frequently and is more wide-ranging in nature.

In the interest of disclosure, I will confess to being married to the author but since he could have nominated himself but is too modest to do so, I think it's okay that I write this.

ProgressiveHistorians

Submitted by xxxnonpartisan on Tue, 2006-11-07 21:30.

I'll nominate the site here too, as I did under Best Group Blog. Here's what I said over there, and it's applicable here too:

I'd like to nominate ProgressiveHistorians, a new community site dedicated to the intersection of history and politics. Our site has three main goals:

-To promote the application of history to the study of current events;

-To encourage bolder, more decisive statements on the state of today's world on the part of academic historians; and

-To draw non-academics into the historical debate.

Come check us out at http://www.progressivehistorians.com!

The Long Eighteenth

Submitted by Sharon Howard (not verified) on Fri, 2006-11-03 20:45.

http://long18th.blogspot.com/

(Full disclosure: I'm one of the group...)

The Long 18th was set up during the summer ago with the aim of creating a venue for 18th-century studies scholars. It's already hosted one successful book event and there are regular postings on issues relating to teaching and research in the period.

History and Education - New Blog

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2006-11-03 16:07.

I nominate "History and Education" (http://history-and-education.blogspot.com/) by Tim Lacy.

History is Elementary

Submitted by Miland Brown (not verified) on Fri, 2006-11-03 10:16.

I nominate History is Elementary at http://historyiselementary.blogspot.com/. This blog is well written, covers multiple topics, and shares the joys and difficulties in teaching history to primary grade students.

Elementaryhistoryteacher is not an academic. Recognizing her blog would encourage other K-12 teachers in history to blog as well.

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