Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Friday, January 31, 2020
Thursday, May 02, 2019
#Everthinghasahistory/#Everythinghasahistory
What I found when I inadvertently searched with "#everthinghasahistory":
Interesting read, definitely thought-provoking. #materialculture #everthinghasahistory HT @ehatmat https://t.co/8yO2BucTuN
— Lydia Pyne (@LydiaPyne) April 17, 2019
I'm fairly sure Jim Grossman <@JimGrossmanAHA> of the American Historical Association originated the hashtag #everythinghasahistory
#EverythinghasaHistory https://t.co/DsEit0K14w
— Jim Grossman (@JimGrossmanAHA) April 24, 2019
#EverythinghasaHistory https://t.co/HzDljVGrsg
— Jim Grossman (@JimGrossmanAHA) April 20, 2019
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Some Tweets About History
Today @niasknaw hosted a successful workshop “Decolonizing knowledge”, on the development of knowledge cultures in Indonesia, India and Africa after independence. On the intersection of history of science, book history, and political history pic.twitter.com/Y4RVB2hCwL
— Remco Raben (@RemcoRaben) May 28, 2018
New post on our blog! Georg Gangl discusses the "Theses on Theory and History" by Wild On Collective (@ekleinberg) in the disciplinary context of the philosophy of history: https://t.co/P1KOiQ56ce#TheoryRevolt
— Centre for Philosophical Studies of History (@CpshOulu) May 28, 2018
Check out the beautiful cover of @warde_paul @LibbydeQ @SverkerSorlin forthcoming book The Environment: A History of the Idea @JHUPress pic.twitter.com/r68hEYBdhI
— Matt McAdam (@mxmcadam) July 20, 2018
So I've been working on this for a while - and it's now live. A website stuffed full of rare programme archives, unseen interviews, documents, and photos, all exploring the long history of the BBC's attempts to embrace a diverse, multicultural worldhttps://t.co/a6HY13X5jB pic.twitter.com/jSPSUxbCKQ
— David Hendy (@DavidjHendy) July 18, 2018
Saturday, March 31, 2018
How historians @jmjafrx and @marthasjones_ extended the reach of their graduate seminar far beyond @JohnsHopkins . Any historian can do this: #EverythinghasaHistory & all histories have people who are interested. https://t.co/aWjkG4bIRm
— Jim Grossman (@JimGrossmanAHA) March 22, 2018
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Shopping Carts
I finished the column last night. Now there's other work to do. A quick browsing of Twitter I find this (via @AngryBlackLady):
Some people have way too much time on their hands, or, more accurately, they waste their time on trivial things. But now I wonder if shopping carts were smaller, and these so-called cuck carts are actually the norm, historically.
Prezi.com: "The Evolution of the Shopping Cart."
More here.
The first prototype was constructed from a folding chair. It utilized two wire hand baskets to carry merchandise. When not in use the carriers were folded and stored against the wall while the hand baskets were stacked to conserve space. Sylvan Goldman founded a company to manufacture his new idea and called it Folding Carrier Basket Company after the design of the first cart.
thought I'd check in on /pol/ after milo's disgrace and I see they are, as always, focused on the issues that matter pic.twitter.com/Xvmtx0N8Mm
— Eleanor Robertson (@marrowing) February 22, 2017
Some people have way too much time on their hands, or, more accurately, they waste their time on trivial things. But now I wonder if shopping carts were smaller, and these so-called cuck carts are actually the norm, historically.
Prezi.com: "The Evolution of the Shopping Cart."
More here.
The first prototype was constructed from a folding chair. It utilized two wire hand baskets to carry merchandise. When not in use the carriers were folded and stored against the wall while the hand baskets were stacked to conserve space. Sylvan Goldman founded a company to manufacture his new idea and called it Folding Carrier Basket Company after the design of the first cart.
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
My Politics Post is Forthcoming, But Here Are Some Links in the Meantime
Still busy, and I'll have a lot more to do this week. But my big post, an overview of politics locally, nationally, and internationally, is forthcoming. Here are some links in the meantime:
Manfred Berg presents counterfactual history: What if US had not joined WWI @shgape #oah2016
— Cara Caddoo (@CaraCaddoo) April 8, 2016
Great Panel: US Foreign Relations Before & After 1916 https://t.co/NM8PAw0uaf @AHAhistorians @cspanhistory @SHAFRhistorians @shgape #WWI
— Christopher Nichols (@CMcKNichols) February 12, 2016
Ten South Carolina papers, published between 1865 and 1922: https://t.co/5sKDp6h2Ds
— Jour. of Sou. Hist. (@JourSouHist) February 9, 2016
We are losing contact with the twentieth century.
— @jsench (@jsench) June 4, 2016
June 16: @drvholden gives our Juneteenth lecture on Nat Turner's Rebellion & enslaved women https://t.co/tmaWFI9wQn pic.twitter.com/IZzafyIiDT
— The Library Company (@librarycompany) June 2, 2016
And to bring marginalia and erasure together... #EALMT https://t.co/nyYJlRCqAm
— Jillio (@Jillio) May 27, 2016
Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Verify Those Memes
Browsing just now at Mark Ames's Twitter I found this:
Something was off, namely the use of the word "selfesteem." It is said to have been coined by William James in his 1890 book, The Principles of Psychology, many decades after the speech Lord Macaulay allegedly made.
The "speech" has gained currency among some Hindu nationalists as evidence of a conspiracy to destroy Indian education and demoralize its people. (Interestingly, Ames often rails against Narendra Modi and other Hindu nationalist politicians. E.g.,
This Wikipedia article on the English Education Act gives context to Macaulay's (actual) remarks.
Minute by the Hon'ble T. B. Macaulay, dated the 2nd February 1835.
The Columbia webpage gives as a source this site:
http://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/history/primarydocs/education/Macaulay001.htm (dead link)
Further discussion here.
A brief history of Vulture Capitalism pic.twitter.com/0oKbn4oqII
— Rafael (@RafaelStepanian) May 3, 2016
Something was off, namely the use of the word "selfesteem." It is said to have been coined by William James in his 1890 book, The Principles of Psychology, many decades after the speech Lord Macaulay allegedly made.
The "speech" has gained currency among some Hindu nationalists as evidence of a conspiracy to destroy Indian education and demoralize its people. (Interestingly, Ames often rails against Narendra Modi and other Hindu nationalist politicians. E.g.,
)Chilling @NewRepublic on India's Modi, a genuine fascist https://t.co/rMt0ze4HY6
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) May 4, 2016
This Wikipedia article on the English Education Act gives context to Macaulay's (actual) remarks.
Minute by the Hon'ble T. B. Macaulay, dated the 2nd February 1835.
The Columbia webpage gives as a source this site:
http://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/history/primarydocs/education/Macaulay001.htm (dead link)
Further discussion here.
Wednesday, April 06, 2016
On Obama's Historical Legacy
As I just commented at Hattie's Web, Obama was constrained by a number of things, but was never out to tear down the system to begin with. Still, he managed to effect changes which will become more apparent in the years to come. And, he has become much bolder in his second term. His demeanor is gentlemanly but he is no pushover.
"53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama’s Legacy."
"53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama’s Legacy."
Reading to children: Obamas: 1 - Cameron: 0 pic.twitter.com/EvhLtEjJTT
— Zoë Brown (@ZBrownie) April 1, 2016
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015
#untoldhistories
I've been checking out the Twitter of @ArchivesNext for a few weeks now. Through it I've found many fascinating things about archives, archival science, and its practitioners. There was a retweet from @jmddrake, the Twitter of digital archivist Jarrett M. Drake, which led me to his Twitter, where I saw this.
Robinson "Break the rules, save the records: human rights archives and the search for justice in East Timor" #untoldhistories
— Jarrett M. Drake (@jmddrake) April 10, 2015Thursday, July 24, 2014
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Rock of Ages/Ages of Rock
As I posted yesterday, I'm thinking about historical periods, how they're defined, how one decade or century shades into the next, or how things, historically, can change instantly.
Spin magazine debunks the popular idea that Nirvana, and grunge generally, killed hair metal. It points out that toward the end of the eighties, several hair groups gave up their makeup and teased coifs, stripping down their music and their look to the basics. This was largely thanks to Axl Rose. (He himself had teased hair in the first Guns n'Roses video, then went natural in the next one.)
Spin magazine debunks the popular idea that Nirvana, and grunge generally, killed hair metal. It points out that toward the end of the eighties, several hair groups gave up their makeup and teased coifs, stripping down their music and their look to the basics. This was largely thanks to Axl Rose. (He himself had teased hair in the first Guns n'Roses video, then went natural in the next one.)
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
An Interesting Blog About the `60s and `70s
I just found this a few minutes ago.
http://sixtiesandseventiesblog.wordpress.com/about/
http://sixtiesandseventiesblog.wordpress.com/about/
Monday, September 30, 2013
Kunstler: "Then What?"
We end the month with Kunstler's latest, an overview of things written in his inimitable style. Next month, I plan to gather more information on aviation, climate change, Colorado, and sprawl in Hilo, then write a coherent overview.
Then What?
A theme in my 2005 book, The Long Emergency, was the counter-intuitive idea that the federal government, rather than becoming the omnipotent Big Brother Moloch so many feared, would instead spiral into impotence and become too incompetent and ineffectual to run everybody’s life. Another theme was that the USA was entering a political impasse comparable to the years that preceded the civil war, with many of the same old grudges playing out in disguise. What we’re seeing is an empire that had grown too quickly to even acknowledge it had become an empire, enter, just as quickly, the throes of contraction.
Hence, the great unacknowledged task before the leadership class is managing contraction. The radical Republicans, even in their Jeezus-driven transports of Dixieland retribution and John Bircher paranoia, come a little closer to recognizing the situation than the Democrats with their Leviathan problem — their nanny-state grandiosity. So, those red state radicals are gonna run that ole ‘possum up a gum stump now and see what happens.
What will happen is whole lot of uncertainty that will further undermine a faith-based economic system lurching on the fumes of legitimacy, especially where money and banking are concerned. The trouble with this kind of brinksmanship is that it is bound to produce unanticipated consequences. When the Carolina secessionists bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, they didn’t have in mind the carnage-to-come of Spotsylvania and Chancellorsville. Similarly, the genteel spectators who rode carriages out of Washington to observe the doings at Bull Run as if it were the NFL season opener. In short, neither the Union or the Confederacy had a clue that they were entering upon the world’s first extravaganza of industrial mass slaughter. So, one wonders if their descendents today realize that are toying with the financial suicide of an advanced technocratic society.
The merits of the case for or against Obamacare are almost impossible for even well-informed and educated citizens to parse. You start with a law roughly 2,000 pages long, cobbled together largely by lobbyists for the insurance and medical industries, both of them hideous rackets, and move to a labyrinth of 50 different state’s systems for administering the darn thing, and then consider the supposed beneficiaries, namely young people so burdened by college loans in an economy that only offers minimum wage scut-jobs that, from one day to the next, they probably don’t know whether to shit or go blind. They don’t even have the scratch to pay the opt-out tax, let alone purchase an insurance policy.
Beyond that kind of uncertainty is the certainty that a whole lot of things are primed to shake loose. One that deserves the anxiety it is generating is the question of US debt, which translates directly into the question of US currency, i.e., the fate of the dollar. Does the legislative branch want to play games with the only thing that supports the market for US Treasury paper — the dollar’s proxy — which is the generally-held notion that the full faith and credit of the nation stands behind promises to pay? 200 measly basis points in the ten-year note is all that stands between the pretense of economic stability and some pretty serious chaos in the government/banking matrix. The one-two punch of the continuing resolution for appropriations and the imminent debt ceiling crunch may rip the fabric of our constructed financial reality and open a black hole into which the wealth of nations disappears forever.
Some observers think a government shutdown would be salutary, the beginning of a wholesale house-cleaning of federal agencies and pain-in-the-ass public employees who get paid too much, enjoy too many benefits, and work strenuously to impede honest enterprise. There may be something to that. But the current actions in congress are more likely to produce a kind of epileptic seizure of all economic activity, public and private.
If congress is really hot to de-fund something, I suggest they start with defunding suburban sprawl, which enjoys more direct government subsidy than even the medical racket. I bet that would not go over so well in the big red Nascar states of Dixie, where driving in a car to do anything has been more-or-less mandatory for decades. This is the kind behavior that is truly killing American civilization, but it’s the last thing we will pay attention to.
Then What?
A theme in my 2005 book, The Long Emergency, was the counter-intuitive idea that the federal government, rather than becoming the omnipotent Big Brother Moloch so many feared, would instead spiral into impotence and become too incompetent and ineffectual to run everybody’s life. Another theme was that the USA was entering a political impasse comparable to the years that preceded the civil war, with many of the same old grudges playing out in disguise. What we’re seeing is an empire that had grown too quickly to even acknowledge it had become an empire, enter, just as quickly, the throes of contraction.
Hence, the great unacknowledged task before the leadership class is managing contraction. The radical Republicans, even in their Jeezus-driven transports of Dixieland retribution and John Bircher paranoia, come a little closer to recognizing the situation than the Democrats with their Leviathan problem — their nanny-state grandiosity. So, those red state radicals are gonna run that ole ‘possum up a gum stump now and see what happens.
What will happen is whole lot of uncertainty that will further undermine a faith-based economic system lurching on the fumes of legitimacy, especially where money and banking are concerned. The trouble with this kind of brinksmanship is that it is bound to produce unanticipated consequences. When the Carolina secessionists bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, they didn’t have in mind the carnage-to-come of Spotsylvania and Chancellorsville. Similarly, the genteel spectators who rode carriages out of Washington to observe the doings at Bull Run as if it were the NFL season opener. In short, neither the Union or the Confederacy had a clue that they were entering upon the world’s first extravaganza of industrial mass slaughter. So, one wonders if their descendents today realize that are toying with the financial suicide of an advanced technocratic society.
The merits of the case for or against Obamacare are almost impossible for even well-informed and educated citizens to parse. You start with a law roughly 2,000 pages long, cobbled together largely by lobbyists for the insurance and medical industries, both of them hideous rackets, and move to a labyrinth of 50 different state’s systems for administering the darn thing, and then consider the supposed beneficiaries, namely young people so burdened by college loans in an economy that only offers minimum wage scut-jobs that, from one day to the next, they probably don’t know whether to shit or go blind. They don’t even have the scratch to pay the opt-out tax, let alone purchase an insurance policy.
Beyond that kind of uncertainty is the certainty that a whole lot of things are primed to shake loose. One that deserves the anxiety it is generating is the question of US debt, which translates directly into the question of US currency, i.e., the fate of the dollar. Does the legislative branch want to play games with the only thing that supports the market for US Treasury paper — the dollar’s proxy — which is the generally-held notion that the full faith and credit of the nation stands behind promises to pay? 200 measly basis points in the ten-year note is all that stands between the pretense of economic stability and some pretty serious chaos in the government/banking matrix. The one-two punch of the continuing resolution for appropriations and the imminent debt ceiling crunch may rip the fabric of our constructed financial reality and open a black hole into which the wealth of nations disappears forever.
Some observers think a government shutdown would be salutary, the beginning of a wholesale house-cleaning of federal agencies and pain-in-the-ass public employees who get paid too much, enjoy too many benefits, and work strenuously to impede honest enterprise. There may be something to that. But the current actions in congress are more likely to produce a kind of epileptic seizure of all economic activity, public and private.
If congress is really hot to de-fund something, I suggest they start with defunding suburban sprawl, which enjoys more direct government subsidy than even the medical racket. I bet that would not go over so well in the big red Nascar states of Dixie, where driving in a car to do anything has been more-or-less mandatory for decades. This is the kind behavior that is truly killing American civilization, but it’s the last thing we will pay attention to.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Don't Know Much About History
David Barton Takes a Lickin' and Keeps on Tickin'.
The people who believe in him will keep believing in him no matter how discredited he is among academic historians. If I found his books at the library book sale, where one can load up a box for a few dollars, I might buy them (as I have Tom DeLay's autobiography). Otherwise, no.
Popular American history books tend to focus on the American Revolution and the Founding Fathers, and the Civil War. These periods are not my interest, partly because they follow the same basic narrative or try to set an agenda, as Barton's books do. I have an abiding interest in German history, particularly the Wilhelmine and Nazi eras; American history of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries (the recent scholarship on the `60s, `70s, and `80s is fascinating); and Asian history (Japan and India).
The people who believe in him will keep believing in him no matter how discredited he is among academic historians. If I found his books at the library book sale, where one can load up a box for a few dollars, I might buy them (as I have Tom DeLay's autobiography). Otherwise, no.
Popular American history books tend to focus on the American Revolution and the Founding Fathers, and the Civil War. These periods are not my interest, partly because they follow the same basic narrative or try to set an agenda, as Barton's books do. I have an abiding interest in German history, particularly the Wilhelmine and Nazi eras; American history of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries (the recent scholarship on the `60s, `70s, and `80s is fascinating); and Asian history (Japan and India).
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons
On the sixty-eighth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (and three days from now, Nagasaki), here are Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, listed by Ward Wilson, in his book of the same title.
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