Sunday, September 5, 2010

Library Controversy Holds Public Interest, Even in the Dog Days

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From the Amherst Bulletin :
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Breaking news: Jones Library Trustee Evaluation Committee has disbanded

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Just received word that the Jones Library Trustees have disbanded the committee whose review of longtime Director Bonnie Isman had sparked s...

23 August 1793 Revolutionary France decrees the "levée en masse"

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One of the great days in the history of revolution, democracy, and warfare:  The revolutionary French Republic, threatened by invasion on it...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

Greetings from Helsinki

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Greetings from Helsinki, where I have been attending the annual conference of SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Pub...

21 August 1968: Warsaw Pact Invades Czechoslovakia, Crushes Prague Spring

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Image via Wikipedia [posted from Helsinki] On the night from 20-21 August 1968, troops from the Warsaw Pact (with the exception of Romani...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Jones Library Drama Approaches its Climax: What outcome do you predict?

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Rather than offering any commentary of my own as the Library crisis builds to its probable climax today, I thought I would instead simply s...

Jones Library Crisis Continues: an eleventh-hour update

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The Jones Library crisis that I announced at the end of last month has continued to deepen and gain ever greater attention. The newspapers ...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Historical Commission Calls Demolition Delay Hearing on Amherst College Fence

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As noted in a recent post , a request came before the Historical Commission from Amherst College for permission to remove an old fence in fr...

Don't Know Much About History: Letter-writer blames Truman for recognizing Israel but forgets when he was President

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A modest little news item, but one that I am unable to let pass without comment because its errors are too egregious and too typical of a fa...

Maurice Olender on the craft of reading and historical reasoning

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A little gem from what Umberto Eco calls "one of the most beautiful books that I know on this subject": A scholar's writings ...