{"id":830,"date":"2010-02-01T23:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T04:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=830"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:59:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:59:12","slug":"history-carnival-84-after-the-tweeting-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2010\/02\/history-carnival-84-after-the-tweeting-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"History Carnival #84: After the Tweeting is Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/historycarnival.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/historycarnivallogo.jpg\" alt=\"The History Carnival\" title=\"historycarnivallogo\" width=\"107\" height=\"68\" Hspace=\"10\" Vspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-457\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m very pleased to be hosting my 6th History Carnival, and I thought it would be fun to extend the carnival into a new medium this time: I&#8217;ve spent the whole day <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\">Tweeting<\/a> the carnival at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jondresner\">my twitter feed<\/a>. Sharon Howard created <a href=\"http:\/\/twapperkeeper.com\/hc84\/?limit=500\">a dynamic archive<\/a> of the carnival, which can also be found by using the hashtag <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23hc84\">#HC84<\/a>. I still haven&#8217;t entirely fallen in love with Twitter &#8212; 140 characters is very, very short &#8212; but I&#8217;m enjoying the flow of information it facilitates, and the way microblogging&#8217;s supplemented my regular history blog reading and writing. It exists in a very productive gray space between professional and informal communication.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNot all spam is content free: Fifty pretty good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatesdegree.com\/2010\/01\/31\/50-great-sites-for-studying-ancient-history-online\/\">sites for ancient history<\/a> by an online degree provider. Speaking of online education and spam,<a href=\"http:\/\/historyofeconomics.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/31\/distance-learning-since-1858\/\"> History of Economics blog<\/a> found a neat visual history of online\/distance learning.<\/p>\n<p>Three from Holocaust Controversies: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/exaggerating-role-of-new-auschwitz.html\">Auschwitz Blueprints<\/a>: &#8220;ignorance and exaggerations from journalists are inexcusable, but&#8230; utterly unsurprising&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>Evidence of <a href=\"http:\/\/holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/thereafter-kube-had-shown-italians-gas.html\">mobile gas extermination units in 1943 Minsk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Critical reading of a <a href=\"http:\/\/holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/irene-zisblatt-diamond-girl-fact-or.html\">survivor&#8217;s diamond-studded pastiche tale<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other war-related posts, Scandalous Women gave us <a href=\"http:\/\/scandalouswoman.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/code-name-cynthia-life-of-elizabeth.html\">an extensive summary of Mary Lovell&#8217;s biography<\/a> of WW2 spy Elizabeth Thorpe. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/worldwar1letters.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/19\/somewhere-near-vaudesson-2191918\/\">America is in it now and forever<\/a> if Germany chooses  to look at it that way,&#8221; wrote 1st Sgt. Samuel E. Avery from a trench on 19 February 1918. Speaking of war correspondence, Letters of Note has great stuff, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2010\/01\/how-many-lives-are-you-willing-to.html\">President George HW Bush to his children<\/a> before the first Gulf war. They also have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2010\/01\/superman-looks-worse-in-each-picture.html\">Superman critiques<\/a> directed at the creators. And if that&#8217;s not enough military history for you, there&#8217;s good news: the <a href=\"http:\/\/edgeofthewest.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/17\/military-history-carnival-2\/\">Military History Carnival Rises Again<\/a>! Next month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/airminded.org\/2010\/02\/01\/the-trumpet-calls\/\">will be at Airminded<\/a>. Speaking of next month, if you want to host a future History Carnival, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/historycarnival.org\">http:\/\/historycarnival.org<\/a> and contact Sharon Howard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jondresner\/4299033249\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4034\/4299033249_9ed80838f7_t.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" align=left hspace=5 alt=\"St. Louis Science Museum - Astronaut Toys\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nComparison of the <a href=\"http:\/\/vintageaeroplanewriter.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/berlin-haitis-rescues-from-sky.html\">Haiti and Berlin Airlifts<\/a> by Vintage Aeroplane Writer. <a href=\"http:\/\/historymoment.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/moon-begins.html\">Big History: The Origins of the Moon<\/a>. Also at History Moments, The origins of (and fate of, in one case) <a href=\"http:\/\/historymoment.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/us-navys-earliest-battleships-i.html\">the battleship in the American Navy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jondresner\/4055054056\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3477\/4055054056_d7f1bf055b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"111\" align=right hspace=5 alt=\"Ghost Sign - Pleasanton, Kansas: Owl Cigars\" \/><\/a>The Oklahoma History Center Blog shares a <a href=\"http:\/\/okhistory.org\/community\/fic\/uncategorized\/cigar-ribbon-smoking-jacket\/\">Smoking Jacket made of Cigar Ribbons<\/a>. Classic recycling! <\/p>\n<p>Manan Ahmed got visual this month: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapatimystery.com\/archives\/homistan\/thousands_of_years.html\">circa 1950 Adverts<\/a> from a Pakistani anglophone pictorial weekly, including a bad history book of some interest. Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapatimystery.com\/archives\/univercity\/french_tales.html\">South Asian content in European Opera<\/a>, with video!<\/p>\n<p>In history of science, Brett Holman gave us WW2 <a href=\"http:\/\/airminded.org\/2010\/01\/24\/a-japanese-death-ray\/\">Japanese Death Ray Experiments<\/a>, and Ether Wave Propaganda gave us <a href=\"http:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/19\/exemplary-episodes-the-n-rays\/\">The Ray that Wasn&#8217;t wave OR particle<\/a>, a fascinating discussion of a scientific blind alley.<\/p>\n<p>Culture&#038;Stuff&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cultureandstuff.com\/2010\/01\/14\/hello-world\/\">inaugural blog post<\/a> recounts painful relationship between George II and Frederick of Hanover.<\/p>\n<p>Zunguzungu (aka Aaron Bady) <a href=\"http:\/\/zunguzungu.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/24\/theodore-roosevelt-has-a-big-stick\/\">looks for the maybe-African or maybe-Irish origins<\/a> of TR&#8217;s &#8220;Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Tim Burke on the <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/2010\/01\/19\/hester-prynne-schmester-prynne-or-sarah-palins-ressentiment-clubhouse\/\">Scarlet Letter, canon, historical pedagogy and culture<\/a>, as only Tim Burke can. Or should.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/desiknitter.com\/\">Desi Knitter<\/a> had a thoughtful discussion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/desiknitter.com\/?p=251\">ambiguities of restoration and orientalism in Melghat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MidtownG at Progressive Historians on small but telling clashes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivehistorians.com\/2010\/01\/day-klan-picked-wrong-people-to-mess.html\">Klan gets beat<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivehistorians.com\/2010\/01\/tierra-y-libertad.html\">Revolutionaries get beat<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of revolutionaries, Howard Zinn died. <a href=\"http:\/\/edgeofthewest.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/27\/howard-zinn\/\">Many, many posts<\/a>. My favorite, though, was <a href=\"http:\/\/acephalous.typepad.com\/acephalous\/2010\/01\/on-the-significance-of-jd-salinger-and-howard-zinn.html\">Acephalous<\/a> who shoehorned JD Salinger&#8217;s death in, too. Also at Scott&#8217;s place, sometimes the URL says it all: <a href=\"http:\/\/acephalous.typepad.com\/acephalous\/2010\/01\/class-canceled-on-account-of-black-death.html\">http:\/\/acephalous.typepad.com\/acephalous\/2010\/01\/class-canceled-on-account-of-black-death.html<\/a> Life is stranger than fiction, most of the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jondresner\/3795910485\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3514\/3795910485_a09acb4df8_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"121\" align=right hspace=5 alt=\"Nikko June 2 - Three Monkeys detail\" \/><\/a>There was <i>some<\/i> news out of the AHA conference this year, which I followed on twitter. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.historians.org\/annual-meeting\/963\/what-were-reading-124th-annual-meeting-edition\">The AHA&#8217;s own roundup<\/a> covers a lot of ground, including Dan Cohen&#8217;s provocative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancohen.org\/2010\/01\/07\/is-google-good-for-history\/\">Is Google Good For History<\/a>? The Historical Society had <a href=\"http:\/\/histsociety.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/post-aha-roundup.html\">it&#8217;s own roundup of AHA news items<\/a>, especially the job market debates. As always, the AHA is the venue for announcing the <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/121997.html\">2009 Cliopatria Awards for Best Blog, New Blog, Group Blog, Post, Series, and Writer<\/a>, a great crop this year. <\/p>\n<p>All was not happy: <a href=\"http:\/\/tenured-radical.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/guest-post-aha-blew-it.html\">LGBTQI historians were not mollified by the mini-conference<\/a> (though the AHA is calling it a victory and doing one again next year). Speaking of gender history, the Tenured Radical looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/tenured-radical.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/and-now-you-will-be-judged-by-history.html\">historians in the California Prop 8 trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/historycarnival.org\">History Carnival<\/a>. My wife described it as a &#8220;Carnival Parade&#8221; approach, which I like. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to be hosting my 6th History Carnival, and I thought it would be fun to extend the carnival into a new medium this time: I&#8217;ve spent the whole day Tweeting the carnival at my twitter feed. 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