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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 136–154.
Published: 01 May 2007
...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...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (142): 133–141.
Published: 01 January 2022
... porn studies and queer historiographies to draw some methodological considerations about the value, benefits, and challenges posed by porn archives to the writing of queer subcultural histories. Rather than trying to solve porn’s double ontological status as both documentary and fantasy, the authors...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (144): 77–105.
Published: 01 October 2022
...-slave relations. Yet Black women’s role in shaping national history is hard to trace. Oral history projects in Bojayá and Esmeraldas are trying to change that by bridging the digital archive, by using memory and orality as shields of truth, and by using traditional methods such as song and prayer...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 133–148.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of the 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...
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Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (35): 89–111.
Published: 01 May 1986
... 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...
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Radical History Review (1977) 1977 (14-15): 60–75.
Published: 01 May 1977
... 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 from...
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Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (65): 108–117.
Published: 01 May 1996
... what I knew about Lawrence, the stories told about its history were unlikely to have happened; that the commemorations of this history were either too innocent about what was happening in Lawrence at the time of the commemora- tions, or else actively mystificatory; and that in terms of trying...
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Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (68): 4–24.
Published: 01 May 1997
... changed by the civil rights movement. And, as the member of a group called the Freedom Singers, I was dialoguing and operat- ing in the same environment as people like Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Odetta. All of these people were trying to figure out ways in which...
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Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (84): 124–136.
Published: 01 October 2002
... 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, because I really do...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (115): 11–25.
Published: 01 January 2013
... 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 the subject...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 187–203.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... And when we take the bait of having to solve for violence, then we cede a lot of terrain to that system. BA: To put it into infrastructural terms, what I hear you saying is that we’re trying to dismantle the existing system without rebuilding right on top of it. In other words, the task...
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (72): 45–55.
Published: 01 October 1998
..., 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 to show people how to do things, like...
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Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (20): 141–161.
Published: 01 May 1979
... 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. Harlequins...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 187–196.
Published: 01 January 2017
... 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 History Review Figure 2. Member of the Harvard team...
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 101–109.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... 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 connecting people...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (102): 137–153.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., Smeltertown. Things that Carey McWilliams talked about — the migra- tion and people moving from El Paso westward — all of these things appeared to me as part of my own history. I learned that at home, and I wasn’t conscious of it until at that point. That doesn’t mean that I wasn’t trying to move...
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Radical History Review (1980) 1980 (24): 115–139.
Published: 01 October 1980
... for Norman Thomas, though I can’t imagine what I knew about socialism. Also in my senior year I was president of the student council, a perfect example of my mixed minds. On the one hand I was delighted to be president. On the other hand, I really did use that office to try to change things, reform...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 123–128.
Published: 01 May 2023
... is definitely an element that has to be there to maintain our sanity. Solidarity is expressed in so many different ways. Some months I used to receive five hundred letters. I would try and answer them all, and my response couldn’t just be a thank you, it had to be a page long. That was so time-consuming! I...
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (72): 32–38.
Published: 01 October 1998
... of mentoring? We should encourage young scholars to think seriously about applying their knowledge and leadership to re-creating processes of public learning. America’s public sphere is starved and in need of engagement. Concretely, programs exist which try to re-engage citizens in public learning...
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Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (31): 72–83.
Published: 01 December 1984
... to ourselves as individuals. We are a deviant sub-culture. The larger society has no interest in maintaining us; in fact, it is usually trying to silence us. If we are going to reproduce our culture, we have to create and recreate the conditions under which we...