Book Review: Barbara Tuchman - WSJ.com
11 weeks ago by msszczep
"Much important and fascinating research is unavailable to the public simply because the discoverers lack the will or the talent to reach beyond their familiar circle. Of course, what has occurred in the history profession is symptomatic of the waning importance of the humanities disciplines themselves, a plight much lamented by those who have hastened the decline. Barbara Tuchman saw it coming."
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11 weeks ago by msszczep
Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany | Books | guardian.co.uk
11 weeks ago by msszczep
As someone with a two-year-old son, this is invaluable.
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kids
11 weeks ago by msszczep
After the Future :: AK Press
february 2012 by msszczep
After the Future explores our century-long obsession with the concept of "the future."
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time
todo
toread
book
futurism
historyofideas
history
february 2012 by msszczep
The Leonard Peltier Trial (1977)
february 2012 by msszczep
A collection of images, primary documents, trial reports, maps, and other materials relating to the trial of Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement leader accused of killing 2 FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975.
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american-indian
history
primary-sources
images
1970s
race-relations
peltier
usa
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via:dilibrary
february 2012 by msszczep
Enjoy the Silence - The Morning News
february 2012 by msszczep
Just because no one uses payphones doesn’t mean the phone booth needs to go the way of the dodo. One man’s plea for preserving society’s greatest unused invention.
phone
telephone
history
privacy
phonebooths
idea
suggestion
february 2012 by msszczep
ZCommunications | The Plow and the Iphone: Conservative Fantasies About the Miracles of the Market by Robert Jensen | ZNet Article
january 2012 by msszczep
A central doctrine of evangelicals for the “free market” is its capacity for innovation: New ideas, new technologies, new gadgets -- all flow not from governments but from individuals and businesses allowed to flourish in the market, we are told.
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history
science
research
politics
economics
markets
commandplanning
conservative
fantasy
ideology
january 2012 by msszczep
ZCommunications | United States: Occupy the Democratic Party? No way! by Dan La Botz | ZNet Article
november 2011 by msszczep
Should the Occupy Wall Street try to enter the Democratic Party in the hopes of influencing it? No. The past 100 years of history tells us that's a move doomed to fail.
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party
elections
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november 2011 by msszczep
ZCommunications | All Day, All Week (All Century), Occupy Wall Street by Thai Jones | ZNet Article
november 2011 by msszczep
"The protests of 1914, which unfolded through a series of tactical decisions concerning the use of violence, potentially suggest a variety of useful lessons to today's protesters and administration. "
occupywallst
occupywallstreet
newyork
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rockefeller
newyorkcity
politics
activism
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usa
november 2011 by msszczep
When Irish Eyes Are Crying | Business | Vanity Fair
march 2011 by msszczep
A very long but extraordinary article detailing the plight of Ireland post-2008.
article
economics
history
ireland
markets
capitalism
greatrecession
corporations
greed
march 2011 by msszczep
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