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The AHA's Perspectives for February is online. It includes the text of the resolution against the war in Iraq that was adopted by the AHA's business meeting on 6 January and on which the whole membership will be asked to vote. There's also a letter to the editor in support of the resolution. It is signed by almost 50 AHA members, including Thomas Bender, John Coatsworth, Robert Darnton, Charles B. Dew, Eric Foner, Maurice Isserman, Alice Kessler-Harris, Roy Rosenzweig, Joan Scott, Jon Wiener, and Lawrence Wittner.

Nara Schoenberg, "Outing Jane Addams: Was the Founder of Hull House a Lesbian? And does it matter?" Chicago Tribune, 6 February, reports on a new exhibit at Chicago's Hull House Museum. Both the article and Tim Lacy's post about the exhibit at History and Education are well worth reading.

Cliopatria's History Blogroll continues to grow steadily. Some recent additions are on the conservative side of things. Conservative, but diversely so: Conservative History is a British group blog; Daniel Larison's Eunomia is an excellent blog by a paleo-conservative University of Chicago student of Byzantine history; A Gentle Fuss is done by Nick Milne, a smart and pious distributist, if I'm not mistaken, at the University of Western Ontario; Thomas Fleming blogs at Hard Right! and The Old Republic is done by my reactionary old friend, the University of South Carolina's Clyde Wilson, who edited the John C. Calhoun Papers. The further left you are on the spectrum of things, I suppose, the harder the distinctions on the right are to see, but they are quite real.

I've got a minor crisis of conscience right now, however. Jon Dresner points out to me that Jacques Pluss recently reappeared at History News Network. You remember him: the medievalist with a Chicago Ph.D. who became -- ah -- a Nazi and got fired from Fairleigh Dickinson University. The fellow now signs himself "SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Dr. Jacques PLUSS (honoris causa)". My problem is that Pluss has two blogs: Jacques Pluss' Real National Socialism and Pluss' "Stille Hilfe Amerika". Do they belong among "Ideas and Beliefs" on the History Blogroll, where there's been no ideological filter, or has Professor Pluss just put himself beyond the pale? Your advice is welcome.

Posted on Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 12:29 AM | Comments (20) | Return

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