Cross-posted from Cliopatria
What is the contribution of the “new media” — electronic discussion forums, especially blogs — to the making of recent history? Dave Dilegge wants to know.
A retired Marine Corps major and liaison officer to the Marine Corps Center for Irregular Warfare, Dilegge is also co-owner of the influential Small Wars Journal and [...]
Dear Leila,
One of the most accomplished historical bloggers is Kevin M. Levin, whose Civil War Memory won the 2007 Cliopatria Award for Best Individual Blog. “It commonly offers the best of both military history blogging and history blogging about the broader political, intellectual, and social context of regional conflict,” noted the citation.
Kevin recently offered [...]
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Dear Leila,
Although I’ve been blogging for over four years, maintain three blogs in addition to this one, and post occasionally on still another, I’ve yet to use blogs in the classroom. True, I encourage my military history students to read Blog Them Out of the Stone Age — for obvious reasons — but only a [...]
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Dear Leila,
Although my impression is that academic blogging is slowly gaining some measure of acceptance, if not respect, within the academic world, “slowly” is perhaps the operative word. Consider this post by Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University:
One of the [...]
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Dear Leila,
You may already have seen it in the print edition of the AHA Perspectives, but Anthony Grafton, a professor at Princeton and vice president of the AHA’s professional division, has a nice appreciation of academic blogging (particularly by historians) in the May issue:
Every weekday morning, nowadays, I start work with a trip. I rise, [...]
Dear Leila,
A couple of days ago I was surprised to receive in the mail a book, Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man, by Hugh Sebag-Montefirore. I hadn’t ordered it. It came from the publicity department of Harvard University Press. It’s common enough for publishers to gratuitously send books out to professors [...]
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Just spent an hour figuring out RSS (Really Simple Syndication), the better to assist readers in keeping up with my blogs; and news aggregators (like Bloglines), the better to keep up with other blogs. This was, of course, an hour not spent on my regular work as a historian. Or, for that matter, doing the [...]
Dear Leila,
When people first learn about my blogging activities, they usually assume it eats up all my time. That’s not especially the case. As proof, I offer the fact that until now I completely overlooked a recent, highly relevant post by Rebecca Goetz.
Rebecca is a veteran, non-pseudonymous academic blogger, a recently minted Harvard PhD (who [...]
Dear Leila,
Laura Blankenship at ETC @ BMC, which is apparently connected with your old alma mater Bryn Mawr, has an excellent and insightful introduction to blogging.
(Hat tip to Laura at 11D.)
From Leila:
Hi Mark,
One of my questions I answered myself — I googled “blogs” and then some specific topics (“dog blogs”) to see what came up, so I see that that is a way to begin to find your way around.
But notice I’m sending you an email — I wonder what is the difference between a [...]
Dear Leila,
Figuring that military history, no matter how way cool it’s done, would hold your interest for just so long, I thought I’d offer a reconnaissance of a blog that may be more up your alley. Regardless of whether that proves the case, I’m going to enjoy the chance to take a closer look at [...]
To: Richard Herrmann, Director, Mershon Center
From: Mark Grimsley
Re: Three-Year Report
In compliance with your request, I am writing to outline the contribution I have made to the Mershon Center over the past three years. In addition to the more conventional contributions (conferences, workshops, articles, etc.) given in the more conventional portion of my [...]
Hi Leila,
In January 2005, the number of hits to my blog began to rise almost exponentially. It was quite a disorienting experience: one I’ve described in a series of posts called Blogadoon. As I make clear in that series, I knew little of blogging in the true sense of the term. But I was certain [...]
Hi Leila,
Blog is short for weblog. The term was first coined in 1997. An easy definition of blog is that it’s a frequently updated web site that, depending on content, can take on the feel of any number of things: online diary, newspaper, even cookbook.
I would imagine that at first blush, a blog can look [...]
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A few weeks ago I phoned Leila J. Rupp, Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies at the University of California — Santa Barbara (that’s her at left in the photo, accompanied by her long-time partner, Verta Taylor).
Leila is also a former colleague in my department. I selected her as my faculty mentor [...]
In light of a recent article in the online Chronicle of Higher Education, Bloggers Need Not Apply, I thought I would quote from my annual performance review::
Dear Mark,
[In the past year, you published this, taught that, and served on such and such a committee.] Finally, you maintained a very interesting and important academic military history [...]
I finally finished off and submitted my annual faculty activities report this afternoon. My department chair and I had a very pleasant twenty-minute conversation. He has yet to read Custer and the Art of the Blog , but it turns out he’d figured out its main finding on his own.
He told me that when, some [...]
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
It finally dawned on me that the blog–which by now was what I really understood it to be–belonged under three major categories of my activities report. Using the report template, it figures under Section III. Forthcoming Work and Research in Progress, although here it makes the most sense to represent it as a book with [...]
