Friday Notes

by Cliopatria

Michael Bowen, Historiannand PhDinHistory call for reforms in the AHA's job marketing.

Etgar Lefkovits,"First Temple Seal found in Jerusalem," Jerusalem Post, 17 January, reports the finding by Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar.

Richard Nokes,"Medieval Manuscript Videos," Unlocked Wordhoard, 17 January, features two beautiful videos of medieval manuscripts.

The new Common-Place is up. Hermaphrodites and Presbyterians in early American history!

The Library of Congress announces that it has identified three previously unknown images of the crowd at Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration.

Early in the twentieth century, photographs by Lewis Hine helped to promote legislation outlawing child labor in the United States. At Mornings on Maple Street, historian Joe Manning tracks his findings about the stories of the children in Lewis Hine's pictures. His search for Annie Card is noteworthy.

Craig Whitlock,"A Scholar's Legal Peril in Poland," Washington Post, 18 January, reports that Princeton historian Jan Gross may face legal charges in Poland for allegedly"slandering the Polish nation" in his recent book, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz. Hat tip.

Finally, after taking down Ron Paul, James Kirchick follows with"Ron Paul's Real Politics: The Case of Daniel Larison," contentions, 16 January. Our colleague, Larison, replies in"My ‘Noxious' Views," Eunomia, 16 January.

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Serge Lelouche - 1/19/2008

OK--you know I really do sense that your loyalty is indicative of a virtuous character.

Ralph E. Luker - 1/19/2008

We were aware of Larison's politics -- both as a paleocon and an admirer of the Confederacy when he was invited to join Cliopatria, so it isn't as if your releaving yourself was necessary to call our attention to it. Cliopatria is diverse in politics and other matters, as well. Larison doesn't speak for the rest of us, any more than I do and there's no necessity in having everyone check in with correct political attitudes every time someone crosses some line or other.

Serge Lelouche - 1/19/2008

"He's never made a *positive* contribution to discussions at this site."

Well, until now anyway!

I really do admire your loyalty--and as I've gotten older I've come to appreciate it more and more as a quality. But I am, it seems, not alone in my surprise at seeing you leap to defend a Confederate nostalgic like Larison. That's the real issue here, not whether or not I'm a pissing dog for bringing it to your attention.

Ralph E. Luker - 1/19/2008

My point to Lelouche wasn't really about whether he or you or I agree with Larison about the Confederacy. It was about his practice of visiting Cliopatria only for the purpose of lifting his leg and pissing on whatever he finds here. He's never made a *positive* contribution to discussions at this site.

Manan Ahmed - 1/19/2008

I don't know (really) about noxious but I certainly don't agree with what I have read so far from Larison in his post.

Jeremy Young - 1/19/2008

I hate to say it, but I have to agree with Lelouche. I'm not going to condemn Larison for his views -- he certainly has a right to hold them -- but I'm most certainly going to condemn the views themselves. League of the South? That's about the most ignorant argument I've read in a long time.

Jonathan Dresner - 1/18/2008

I don't remember if I read that one or one of the later ones, but yeah.

Have you been following the discussions next door at Liberty and Power? They're not Paulistas, exactly, but you can see some serious stretching going on.

Timothy James Burke - 1/18/2008

Did anyone read the comment thread on the Ron Paul article at TNR?

http://www.tnr.com/talkback.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca

I found it terrifying. Ron Paul was not really someone on my radar screens before this campaign, and like many, I was bemused and sort of pleased to see someone up on the stage at the Republican debates saying some of the things he was saying. I was also interested at the evident passion of his supporters.

But when you read that comment thread, it's hard not to feel like you've stepped into a cult meeting without realizing it. Moreover, it's a familiar feeling cult meeting: it's kind of like an acid flashback to a vintage John Birch Society meeting, in some ways, but in any event, the paranoid strain in American politics is in full-hued cry there. That's even given that the Paul supporters there are probably right about Kirchick's political motives for writing the article. Those comments do a lot more to make Paul's campaign look "over" for me than the revelations of the main article itself.

Serge Lelouche - 1/18/2008

Fair enough, I'm a dog.
You are certainly a loyal friend to fellow Cliopatricians. I would have thought Confederate nostalgia have been a bridge too far.

Ralph E. Luker - 1/18/2008

Mr. Lelouche, Have you noticed that your comments here at Cliopatria rather systematically have the same quality and character of a dog's marking a fire hydrant? You might want to think about what that says about Serge Lelouche.

Serge Lelouche - 1/18/2008

Southern states' rights has gotten such a raw deal--thank god for Larison.