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Mar 21, 2010

Points in Controversy


by Cliopatria


  • Carnivalesque LX, an early modern edition of the festival, is up at The Quack Doctor.
  • The 1st Edition ~ Carnival of African-American Genealogy: Restore My Name – Slave Records & Genealogy Research is up at Our Georgia Roots.

    • Barbara Bradley Hagerty,"Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?" NPR, 18 March, considers Philip Jenkins's findings in his Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years and in his forthcoming Dark Passages.

    Robert Darnton,"Blogging Now and Then," NYRBlog, 18 March, compares 18th and 21st century blogging. Caleb McDaniel,"Blogging in the Early Republic," Common-Place, July 2005, made much the same general comparison. Tim Lacy's"A (Non-USIH) Intellectual Historian On The History Of Blogging," U.S. Intellectual History, 18 March, challenges some of Darnton's specific points.

    David Shields,"Trouble seeing the line between fact and fiction," LA Times, 18 March, reflects on recent instances of fabrication and plagiarism.


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