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  • The Value of Local History


    Bohemian Yankee in the CapitalAuthority Authority: 111
    The Washington DC Studies Conference this weekend drew several hundred people to wide ranging talks on stories of the nation’s capital. The event took place in the city’s Charles Sumner School, one of the first public school buildings erected for the education of Washington’s black community.   ...
    23 hours ago
  • APEC leaders dilute carbon targets


    Ohaiyo Business MagazineAuthority Authority: 432
    Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
    1 day ago
  • Coffee, tea and revolution


    Jahane RumiAuthority Authority: 115
    Before his death in July 2009, KK Aziz had accomplished one mission that he had set for himself, i.e. to write about the Lahore Coffee House, the glorious nursery of ideas. Luckily, despite his failing health, Aziz finished a draft that was meant to be a shining part of his autobiographical kaleidoscope. “The Coffee ...
    1 day ago
  • The Sleazy Advocacy of a Leading “Liberal Hawk”


    Count Us OutAuthority Authority: 151
    “Here we have yet another example of one of America’s most Serious and respected “experts” advocating various policies while maintaining huge, undisclosed financial and personal interests in his advocacy.  He was given access to every major media outlet virtually on demand to do so — the NYT, The ...
    1 day ago
  • THE WALL MIGHT BE GONE IN GERMANY ….. BUT SO IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH


    War On You: Breaking Alternative NewsAuthority Authority: 571
    THE WALL MIGHT BE GONE IN GERMANY ….. BUT SO IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH Ilan Pappe silenced in Munich Left-wing groups enraged by Germany municipality’s decision not to allow anti-Zionist Israeli historian to speak at governmental institution. Pappe writes to Munich mayor his policy reminiscent of Nazi ...
    1 day ago
  • *In Pete Seegers House- "Rainbow Quest"-Patrick Sky


    AMERICAN LEFT HISTORYAuthority Authority: 149
    Click on title to link to YouTubes film clip of Pete Seegers now famous 1960s (black and white, thats the give-away)"Rainbow Quest" for the performer in this entrys headline. Markin comment: This series, featuring Pete Seeger and virtually most of the key performers in the 1960s folk scene is a worthy entry into ...
    2 days ago
  • Subversive Historian - 11/13/09


    uprisingradio.orgAuthority Authority: 440
    Listen to this segment | the entire program Supreme Court Rules Against Segregated Buses Back in the day on November 13th, 1956, the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregated seating on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Affirming a federal court ruling on Browder v. Gayle, the decision ...
    2 days ago
  • Beyonce is stupid, says Egyptologist


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 710
    London, Nov 13 (IANS) A leading Egyptologist has called pop star Beyonce Knowles a “stupid person” for her lack of interest and knowledge about ancient Egypt.Historian Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s chief Egyptologist, was annoyed by Knowles’ ignorance as she toured the Giza pyramids near Cairo recently, reports ...
    2 days ago
  • *In Pete Seegers House- "Rainbow Quest"-Rosa Valentin


    AMERICAN LEFT HISTORYAuthority Authority: 149
    Click on title to link to YouTubes film clip of Pete Seegers now famous 1960s (black and white, thats the give-away)"Rainbow Quest" for the performer in this entrys headline. Markin comment: This series, featuring Pete Seeger and virtually most of the key performers in the 1960s folk scene is a worthy entry into ...
    3 days ago
  • Subversive Historian - 11/12/09


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    Listen to this segment | the entire program The Durand Line Agreement Back in the day on November 12th, 1893, the Durand Line Agreement was signed between Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman and British colonial officer Henry Mortimer Durand. The seven articles of the agreement were signed in Kabul and set a ...
    3 days ago
  • Pop culture has no room for those I consider crush-worthy


    Feral GeographerAuthority Authority: 124
    A while ago, Miz Moffat wrote a blog post in which she recounted the celebrity crushes of her youth and how they signified a future queer existence. I didn’t comment, but I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this. I didn’t comment not because I didn’t recognize my young queer self, but because ...
    3 days ago
  • Blues Historian Update


    Blues HistorianAuthority Authority: 126
    Things are slowing down here at Blues Historian. Back when I started this blog for my Blues History class at BVU, I was posting three stories, and three videos a day. Over the last few years I have added and subtracted features, but I have kept it going. However, things are changing. The blues class that I have ...
    3 days ago
  • Subversive Historian - 11/11/09


    uprisingradio.orgAuthority Authority: 440
    Listen to this segment | the entire program Aboriginal Protection Act of 1869 Back in the day on November 11th, 1869, the Aboriginal Protection Act was passed by the Victorian colonial government of modern-day Australia. The legislation enacted exactly one-hundred and forty year ago today claimed ...
    4 days ago
  • Dangerous Heidegger


    Journeys in AlterityAuthority Authority: 417
    There’s no learning the landscape of contemporary continental philosophy, no knowing the paths of phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, and deconstruction, no interpreting the stories told by the postmodern pilgrims who tread such ways, without understanding the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. If serious ...
    4 days ago
  • A Historian’s View on Heathcare Reform


    Ft. Hard KnoxAuthority Authority: 480
    As part of the Operation Health Freedom series, bestselling author Tom Woods gives a historian’s perspective on the health care debate. It helps to understand that healthcare actually worked in history before the government got involved.
    5 days ago
  • Im an historian living in the future and it is the BEST THING EVER


    Trouble Is A State Of MindAuthority Authority: 425
    Vanished Persian army said found in desert "We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the Greek historian Herodotus," Dario Del Bufalo, a member of the expedition from the University of Lecce, told Discovery News. According to Herodotus (484-425 B.C.), Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the ...
    5 days ago
  • Subversive Historian - 11/10/09


    uprisingradio.orgAuthority Authority: 440
    Listen to this segment | the entire program The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 Back in the day on November 10th, 1898, the Wilmington Race Riot occurred in North Carolina. At least twenty-two blacks were killed by white racist members of the Democratic Party as a municipal coup d’etat was staged. ...
    5 days ago
  • Subversive Historian - 11/09/09


    uprisingradio.orgAuthority Authority: 440
    Listen to this segment | the entire program The Abduction of Calvin Fairbank Back in the day on November 9th, 1852, Reverend Calvin Fairbank was kidnapped from Indiana and taken to Kentucky. The abolitionist minister was promptly incarcerated in Louisville for assisting the escape of a so-called ...
    6 days ago
  • Remembrance Day Special: Richard Holmes’ Christmas Wishlist


    5th EstateAuthority Authority: 120
    Between now and Christmas, we’ve asked some of our brilliant authors to provide lists of books they’d like as christmas gifts – either to give or receive. To kick of this series we have esteemed military historian Richard Holmes, with a special selection of Remembrance Day themed books.We also asked Richard to ...
    6 days ago
  • Not Panicking


    Journeys in AlterityAuthority Authority: 417
    We are free so that we may love and do what is good. Because of this, I find assertions and arguments that healthcare reform measures will diminish our freedom and should therefore be opposed to be less than convincing. We uphold the value of a free society not because freedom is an end in itself – it isn’t – ...
    1 week ago

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