2007 Cliopatria Awards Nominations: BEST POST

by Cliopatria

Nominations are now closed.
Look for the winners to be announced in January

Please submit, in comments below, your nominations for the best blog post by historians or about history published since 1 December 2006. [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 post(s). You many nominate as many posts as you wish in this category, and you may nominate individual blogs 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 Ralph Luker or leave a comment here.

Judging Committee: Rebecca Goetz, Paul Harvey, Elizabeth Klaczynski
[Judges are ineligible to win awards they are judging, but feel free to nominate them for something else!]

Go to: 2007 Nomination index, Best Group Blog, Best Individual Blog, Best New Blog, Best Post, Best Series of Posts, Best Writer, Previous Winners

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Jonathan Dresner - 12/1/2007

Nominations for the 2007 Awards are now closed. Judging committees will make their selections and the winners will be announced in early January.

- 12/1/2007

For something completely different: In disturbing new study, economists find that history is inefficient, from the Legal History Blog, April 1, 2006. http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/in-disturbing-new-study-economists-find.html

Alun Salt - 12/1/2007

http://airminded.org/2007/10/14/the-sheerness-incident/

It's simply a very good example of intelligent comment on a matter which might be too short for a journal but nonetheless deserves attention.

manan ahmed - 12/1/2007

Review of Last Mughal
and The Outsider
http://sidshome1.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-social-movements-postmodernism.html

Rob MacDougall - 11/29/2007

Heather McDougal (no relation), "The Flow of Information, or: Culture, Shmulture" at Cabinet of Wonders
http://cabinet-of-wonders.blogspot.com/2007/10/flow-of-information-or-culture.html

Sharon Howard - 11/25/2007

Alan Baumler, When is a farmer not a farmer?
http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/02/when-is-a-farmer-not-a-farmer-when-he%e2%80%99s-chinese-then-he%e2%80%99s-a-peasant/

Dave Davisson, Digital history in the 21st century
http://patahistory.blogspot.com/2007/04/digital-history-in-twenty-first.html

Tim Burke, Knowledge is inconvenient
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/43209.html

Rachel Leow, Perils of the keyword
http://idlethink.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/the-perils-of-the-keyword/

Jonathan Dresner - 11/18/2007

Jonathan Dresner, Islamic History at the AHA
Alan Baumler, Why Study?
C.W.Hayford, When is a Farmer not a Farmer? When He’s Chinese: Then He’s A Peasant
K.M.Lawson, There are Japanese legacies, and then there are Japanese legacies
Terry Thornton, Shhhhhhhhhhhhh! Let's not talk about this . . .

Tim Lacy - 11/13/2007

Dear Cliopatria's Selection Committee,

Please consider Tenured Radical's very helpful post on applying for tenure-track jobs (url: http://tenured-radical.blogspot.com/2007/10/these-things-i-know-applying-for-tenure.html). She sparked a timely conversation, bringing up a number of subjective (and objective) factors considered by selection committees when reviewing materials (esp. cover letters).

Sincerely,

Tim Lacy, Ph.D.
Chicago, IL
timothy.n.lacy-at-gmail.com

Viv LaBerge - 11/3/2007

Please consider the following two posts by Tim Abbott of Walking the Berkshires in this category.

http://greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires/2007/07/weve-got-a-pani.html

http://greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires/2007/10/right-rangers-w.html

Jeremy Young - 11/1/2007

Three nominees in this category: Eugene, Whither -- or Whether -- Wikipedia?, a rumination on Wikipedia's role in the classroom drawing on themes from the late Roy Rosenzweig; midtowng, Into the Unknown Heart of America, an excellent retelling of Cabeza de Vaca's Western expedition; pico, Nous Sommes Tous Americains, and The Death of Irony, a skillful application of textual analysis to two post-9/11 public documents; all from ProgressiveHistorians.