Amateur history for (a) future historian(s)
Simul-blogged at Holocaust Controveries. I. The Controversy Thus Far Among the controversies inspired by the publication in 1977 of David Irving’s Hitler’s War was the reproduction in that volume of a page of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler’s telephone log. In particular, the page cited by Irving, among other content, listed a series of notes taken by Himmler during …
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I’m still under a pile of work with no real material to share from my coursework and not much time to write anything else. For shits and giggles, here’s a book review I wrote for a class at Edinburgh a few years back. ===== Mayer, Arno J. Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The “Final …
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I had the first meeting of my current grad history class in imperial Russian history two days ago. The professor is extraordinarily highly regarded in the field and show tremendous enthusiasm, which is always nice to see. As I mentioned elsewhere, I’m unsure what my major research topic will be for the term, but I …
And that quickly, a month has gone by since I’ve written here. By way of a quick update, my current plan is to take a graduate-level Russian history class at Penn in the fall and another graduate-level history course at Edinburgh in the spring, the latter probably a methodology. Finishing the third class at Edinburgh …
Thirty years ago, the Institute of Jewish Studies at University College London (UCL) hosted an international conference in memory of its former director, Joseph G. Weiss, who had been an important scholar of Hasidism – the Jewish religious movement that began in Poland in the eighteenth century and quickly came to dominate significant segments of …
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Short on cash this term to take another course at Edinburgh, I decided to enroll in the University of Pennsylvania’s extension program and take a grad-level course in Jewish History. Unsurprisingly, it’s pretty rigorous so far. It’s very reading heavy, as the title would suggest. Plus, as a term paper, it’ll be necessary to write …
Here’s an interview I did a few weeks ago on the historic.ly podcast, covering a lot of topics all either directly or indirectly related to fascism. Enjoy. Share. Etc.
Few words in history or political science have had definitions as intensely debated as fascism. An enormous volume of ink has been spilled attempting to define the term since 1945, with a consensus remaining elusive beyond general agreement about ultranationalism and anti-Marxism. The controversy only increases when attempting to subcategorize the field: one such subcategory, …
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I’m going to finish this series on Carlo Mattogno’s treatment of the murder on 30 November 1941 of thousands of Latvian Jews, plus a thousand Reich Jews who had just arrived in Riga, by making a few general observations. Before that, however, a couple of confessions. First, I’m not an historian, although I do have …
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Having addressed Mattogno’s butchering of the Keine Liquidierung phone note and ignorance of points like basic meteorology, geography, and arithmetic, we move in this post to discussing how Mattogno addresses the aftermath of the shooting of a thousand Reich Jews in Riga on 30 November 1941. The “orthodox” history has it that, Lange having lodged a complaint about this …
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Inevitable Historicity