Dec 27, 2008
Weak Endnotes
Christopher Miller,"Historians and Facebook," History and Education, 16 December, compares the numbers of Facebook group memberships achieved by word-of-mouth for the AHA, OAH, and H-Net. He contrasts these with the group memberships achieved by"sustained efforts" for Cliopatria, HNN, and Progressive Historians.* Miller concludes that the AHA and OAH"are missing out by not extending content to this platform." I'm not so sure about that, but that may be because I really don't understand what Facebook is all about. I have an account and have friends on Facebook, but it isn't clear to me how it is particularly useful to historians.
*Other history blogs that have Facebook groups include: Chapati Mystery, Civil War History, Civil War Memory, In the Middle, and TOCWOC -- A Civil War Blog.
*Other history blogs that have Facebook groups include: Chapati Mystery, Civil War History, Civil War Memory, In the Middle, and TOCWOC -- A Civil War Blog.
David Abulafia reviews Marcy Norton's Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World for THES, 18 December.
Adam Hochschild,"Americans in the gulag," TLS, 23 December, reviews Tim Tzouliadis's The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags, Hope and betrayal in Stalin's Russia.
Dwight Gardner,"A Wartime Tale That Had to Be Told," NYT, 25 December, reviews Thomas Keneally's Searching for Schindler, an account of how the story of"Schindler's List" came to be told.
Finally, can a Marxist think of fox hunting as a healthy sport? Apparently so. The late Christopher Hill did.