Some Other Things

We became aware of how devastating Katrina's damage was only yesterday. If you have a contribution to make to relief efforts, I can recommend the American Red Cross, Catholic Charities, Mennonite Disaster Services, the Salvation Army and United Jewish Communities. Here is a list of additional agencies. The Pentagon's command center for relief operations has been established at Camp Shelby, where our colleague, Chris Bray, is stationed. John Lederer sends this note from an Associated Press story:"Army officials were en route Tuesday to Camp Shelby in Mississippi, where power had been knocked out and fallen trees and flooding had done some damage. The base was not evacuated, and there were no early reports of injuries."

Sharon Howard reminds us that it is Carnival Season.

Jeremy Boggs at ClioWeb will host History Carnival on Thursday 1 September. Send your nominations of exemplary history posts that have appeared since 15 August to him at: jboggs*at*gmu*dot*edu.

The Carnival of Bad History will be held on Thursday 1 September at Dodecahedron. It will feature posts debunking bad history.

Gzombie is hosting the inaugural Teaching Carnival on Thursday 1 September. It will feature teaching issues in higher education. Send your nominations to: Non.zombie*at*gmail*dot*com.

On Monday 5 September, Rebecca Goetz will host an early modernist edition of Carnivalesque at (a)musings of a grad student. Send your nomination of recent posts on the period from 1500 CE to 1800 CE to rgoetz*at*fas*dot*harvard*dot*edu by midnight on Sunday 4 September.

Earlier this month, Cliopatria focused its third symposium on Akira Iriye's"Beyond Imperialism: The New Internationalism," Daedalus, Spring, 2005. Now, Alfredo Perez at Political Theory Daily Review points out that the whole issue of Daedalus devoted to the issue of imperialism has just become available on the net. In addition to Iriye's essay, it includes articles by Robert Blackburn of Essex, Molly Greene of Princeton, Niall Ferguson of Harvard, Anthony Padgen of UCLA, Kenneth Pomerantz of UC, Irvine, and Jack Snyder of Columbia. [More below the fold]

Marc Comtois at Spinning Clio has a series of posts up on"Introduction to Historical Method." Thanks to Nathanael Robinson at Rhine River and Brandon Watson at Siris. Marc's posts prompt Nathanael to wonder about the origins of the Annales school and an objection to Marc's anti-post-modernism by a reader at Siris.

Tunku Varadarajan,"Two Kinds of Oddity," Wall Street Journal, 12 August, says that Americans tend to exhibitionism, while the British incline to eccentricity. This strikes me as being true, but wouldn't it be a function of or, at least, of a piece with, other differences in national character? Thanks to Alan Allport at Horizon for the tip.

Sam Shah at Historiblogography found this goody: Katherine DeBrecht's new book for the 8 to 10 year old set, Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! Sam says that it looks more like a Lefty satire of Righty indoctrination, but it is Righty indoctrination. Amusing, in a way, if you're a"broccoli head" like me. Alas, Ms. DeBrecht (a pen name) was a history major at St. Mary's College at Notre Dame.