Spinning Clio

I handed in my MA Thesis yesterday and will be sitting for my oral comprehensive test a week from today. Though I haven't been blogging,...

I mentioned that things would be quiet around here for awhile. Despite a few posts a couple weeks ago, I've managed to stay away. Well...

History Carnival XXIV has been wonderfully compiled by the Elfin Ethicist. As time is short whilst I continue prepping for the comp's, ...

Joseph Ellis is trying to put 9/11 in historical perspective. In particular, he asks, where does it rank in the list of events that have t...

U.S. News & World Report has an issue on Presidents at War that I plan on perusing. Looks like a lot of good stuff for those of us who...

I was wondering what Historians think/thought of Will Durant's The Story of Civilization series. I have one of the volumes-- Age of V...

Glory Road purports to be the true story of the famous Texas Western basketball team "with history's first all African American st...

Yup, still working at the real job and cracking the books, but I thought I'd call attention to Johan Goldberg's Liberal Reading list...

Before I go, I have to mention that Cliopatria has awarded The Rhine River as having the Best Series of Posts , and deservedly so. (Heck, I...

In anticipation of some rough academic sledding, here's a heads up that blogging will probably quite light for the next month or two. W...

I'm far from the cutting edge of bioethics, so I'm not familiar with the work of bioethicist Margaret Pabst Battinbut. However, acco...

Doug Kern agrees with Jeffrey Hart that conservatives would be well-served to apply Burkean thought to contemporary times...but that's ...

Jeffrey Hart's column on modern conservatism has gotten plenty of reaction. Now it's coming from high places, indeed. Kathryn Jean ...

Alexandra von Maltzan has pointed to a few other blogs (including her own) that have commented upon Jeffrey Hart's original piece . (F...

Like a runaway train that I can't get off, the debate over Jeff Hart's attempt at defining American conservatism has begun anew wi...

Nota Bene : What follows is an experiment in which I attempted to "liveblog" a running commentary and debate amongst different blo...