...Patrick Anderson MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 reflections Trying Ordeal: Henry Tanner and Chris Burden in the Event of Subjectivity Patrick Anderson All perfectly formed animals are to be divided into three parts, one that by which food is taken...

... Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), attempted something new: to move beyond professional genealogies and traditions in order to try and critically apprehend the self-proclaimed “new” science of data, which has strong ties to what some might call “scientific entrepreneurship” and which, as part of...

... radi- calism. They were prompted by an unsolicited submission from Professor Greg Kaster. So please send in your own syllabi, ideas or think pieces-we will try to incorporate them, or even build a section around them. In future issues, we hope to move away from our focus to date on modern...

... wild. Almost every urban history contains information, but few try to make any coherent explanation of class or other social relations and almost none do so from a Marxist or marxisant perspective. COMMENT This paper focuses on the widespread failure...

... Davis or E.P. Thompson. However, even if I was not a real political militant, I was certainly, and I am still, conscious of the political implications, in the broader sense of the word, of what I was trying to do. Perhaps my topics which seemed bizarre then seem less bizarre now because politics...

... for a person like myself. If you try to infuse your objective work with your values, to comment on it, then of course you are "presentist." If, on the other hand, you bend over backwards not to do that, you run a danger of losing track of who you are, of disassociating yourself...

... that in terms of trying to help the current workers of Lawrence make changes, this mattered. To pursue this, I started by trying to find out what the workers in RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW 65~108-1171996 IN REPLY 109 the 1912 strike...

... Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Odetta. All of these people were trying to figure out ways in which they could participate in the civil rights movement. At that moment what was going on was both the contemporary new song and a revival of old songs, and old singers...

... uncovering and preserving American traditions that have often gone ignored. Steve Zeitlin: In my recent days, I’ve actually thought of trying to get a group of folklorists together to write a piece about how folklorists have changed the world...

...: discussing topics for a seminar paper, figuring out the reading list for exams, and, eventually, talking about a thesis or dissertation project. When I think about it, several things go into the work on my side of the relationship. For starters, in the give and take of developing a project, I try...

... desiccated Sahel. And the introduction discussed briefly the Russia dust bowl and Khrushchev’s expansionary policies. I was trying to connect U.S. history with a more global set of problems. You mentioned that political ties bound people together during this moment, when that “Whole Earth” image was...

... ”outrageous antics’’ were a brilliant exercise of the political imagination. Early in tlhe sixties he led a small band of proto-Yippies who threw thousands of dollars from the gallery of the New York Stock Exchange; thie brokers on the floor went wild in a frenzy of greed, trying to grab the floating...

...- guage that is neither too opaque nor too transparent. While the first option repels readers, the second attempts “to win readers over in a style that perhaps too closely resembles the mind-­set one is trying to oppose and challenge.” They are compelled to “use the very same language to recapture...

... of the potentially expanding boundaries of "the historical profession". It forced a reexamination of historical assumptions and language which was difficult and at times painful. I think particularly of the long ses- sions we had in trying to write the text for the exhibit. It was...

... strenuous efforts involved in ”trying to divorce Jewishness from justice struggles,” and demonstrates how important the construction of particu- lar ”lessons of the Holocaust’’ have been in the rise of neoconservative ideology. Cliff Welch’s article, ”The Shooting of Jofre CorrGa Neto,” combines...

... an assistant professor of American Studies and English at Wesleyan University. He is working on a manuscript on pulp fiction and the pulp fiction indus- try between the wars. David Nasaw is Chair of the Doctoral History Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently completing a...

... Firestone in December 1925 and offered to go to Liberia and conduct a complete biological and medical survey of the country at the time that Firestone was trying to negotiate with the Liberian government for access for up to one mil- lion acres of land to establish a rubber plantation. 190  Radical...

... that point. That doesn’t mean that I wasn’t trying to move to the point of finding this out. It was there. It was like my history that was buried somewhere, and finally I became conscious of this being not just mine but a history of an entire people. That’s what got me directly involved in Chicano...

... is the prisoner of past successes, trying to find again the somewhat mysterious combination of elements that made a particular book hit the taste of the street. The way in which people experience mass cultural products in a heter- ogeneous society is erratic, subject to many forces...

... are trying to ban it from the Internet. But one great benefit of something that’s released under a copyleft license is that it’s hard to censor it. It’s much easier to censor stuff that’s centrally controlled. If Sita had a conven- tional release in India, it would be easy to censor it. But Sita...