For some reason I’m having huge trouble responding, with Blogger, to comments on this issue at John Fea’s excellent blog, where much discussion is ongoing. A virtue of the FB board would be to address the problem of diffusion I complain about below — but only John Bell and I are posting there, so no [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jill Lepore’
Wood, Lepore, and the Tea Party: a Comment Intended for John Fea’s Blog
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American history, Gordon Wood, historiography, Jill Lepore, Tea Party on January 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Facebook discussion board on Wood, Lepore, and Tea Party
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American history, Gordon Wood, historiography, Jill Lepore, Tea Party on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Those interested in ideas about critical history and popular memory, raised by Gordon Wood’s New York Review of Books piece on Jill Lepore’s The Whites of Their Eyes, can comment on a Facebook discussion board dedicated to the topic, established by John Bell of Boston 1775. It would be good to see other interested parties [...]
Gordon Wood, Jill Lepore, and the Tea Party
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American history, Edmund Morgan, Gordon Wood, historiography, Jill Lepore, Tea Party on December 31, 2010 | 11 Comments »
First impression [UPDATE: I meant of Wood's whole piece, not just the part in front of the firewall [[UPDATE: OK, that's not what a firewall is (IT figuratively); I was just copping imprecise language from hnn.us]]; I read the Wood piece in something called print (HNN complains about NYRB “firewall” here, Wed. 1/5/10)]. Anyway, as [...]
