Wednesday Notes
-- our colleague, Daniel Larison, whose Eunomia had its third anniversary last week. In addition to Cliopatria and Eunomia, Daniel is also a regular contributor to a number of other sites; and, of course, Andrew Sullivan recently recommended him as a weekly columnist for the New York Times.
– our contributing editor, Mechal Sobel, whose book manuscript on the self-taught, outsider artist Bill Traylor (1854-1949) has been accepted for publication by LSU Press. If you've read Mechal's earlier work, you know that this book will be a treasure.
Conventional Coverage: In case you won't be at Washington's AHA convention, 3-6 January, it will be double-covered by AHA Today and HNN. Between the two of them, you're sure not to miss any major developments. I'll try to follow-up later with links to reports by individual bloggers. In the meantime, see: Scott Jaschik,"Healthy, but Mismatched History Job Market," IHE, 2 January; and Audrey Williams June,"For Some Historians, More Jobs to Go Around," CHE, 2 January.
Higher Ed History: Jaschik,"‘Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement'," IHE, 2 January, interviews Peter Wallenstein, who's edited a new book by that title. Peter's argument seems right to me.
Intellectual Migration: Since the publication of Donald Fleming's and Bernard Bailyn's The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930-1960 (1969), the body of work by and about Jewish emigres to the United States in flight from the Holocaust has grown enormously. Morris Dickstein's"Praising Not the Hedgehog but the Fox Books," NY Sun, 26 December, reviews a recent addition to the literature, Geoffrey Hartman's memoir, A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe.
Maps: If you've enjoyed Strange Maps, you may want to have a look at James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow, Jr., eds., Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. For a foretaste of it, see their website, What is a Map?"Mapping Slavery in America" is of special interest. Compare it with the University of Michigan's"Race, Voting Rights, and Segregation: Rise and Fall of the Black Voter, 1868-1922" (use arrows at the bottom to scroll through the maps). Thanks to Rob Farley at Lawyers, Guns, and Money for the tip.