Modern History Notes

"Archie Summons Up Some AHA Detox," Rate Your Students, 5 January, is a colorful wrap up on the convention -- including comments on your job interview and your dissertation.

Scott Jaschik's"Seeking Purpose in Graduate Course Work," IHE, 6 January, begins with Ann Fabian's line,"We were more or less raised and professionalized by wolves." The discussion continues at Ann Little's"Modern graduate studies and the value of historiography," Historiann, 6 January, and at Paul Harvey's"The Graduate," Religion in American History, 7 January.

Frances Wilson reviews Franny Moyle's Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites for the London Times, 4 January. Hat tip.

Eric Arnesen,"Free Speech vs. fear," Boston Globe, 4 January, reviews Ernest Freeberg's Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent and Christopher Capozzola's Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen. Hat tip.

Adam Kirsch and Slavoj Zizek trade blows in: Kirsch,"The Deadly Jester," TNR, 3 December, a review of Zizek's In Defense of Lost Causes and Violence; Zizek,"Who Are You Calling Anti-Semitic?" TNR, 7 January; and Kirsch,"Still The Most Dangerous Philosopher In The West," TNR, 7 January.

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