...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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 from...

.... 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, white and black. Then the Smithsonian entered the equation...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

.... 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 studies...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... got hooked. And it was history from the word go? It was history because I really did want to try and make some sense out of what the hell was going on-the Bomb and all that. I figured from my education, my reading, that history was the best way to figure out the way the world...

... States, even if the state is not cen- soring directly, then it’s supporting those who do censor. In the U.S., censorship is outsourced, and in India the state effectively censors things. So the state of India could ban Sita; fundamentalists are trying to ban it from the Internet. But one great...

...Rosalyn Baxandall Copyright © 1995 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1995 A Tribute to Sheila Rowbotham: Activist, Provoker of Thought and Action Rosalyn Baxandall In this brief essay I will try to explore...