I spent the afternoon in a coffee shop mining footnotes of various secondary accounts of the violence in the autumn of 1946 (it is also known as the Autumn Harvest Uprising, the October People’s Resistance, the October Riot Incident, the October Rebellion, and the Taegu Uprising) to see if I have been missing anything. I [...]
My mother, Siri, made a trip to Norway recently to meet various WWII veterans from the Norwegian merchant marine and to attend some of their events as an honorary member. She has many friends and dedicated fans among their surviving members, thanks to her years of hard work creating the the best and most extensive [...]
I am back in the US for a few weeks. I’m writing this sitting in my favorite Butler library hangout in Columbia University, where I am visiting friends for a few days. C. W. Hayford has posted a wonderful collection of links at Asian History Carnival #18. One of the many things he noted is [...]
I have recently switched to almost full-time reading of early postwar Korean newspapers. I’m avoiding those newspapers (조선일보, 동아일보, 서울신문) from this period that I have easy access to back in my library in the US or through online databases. There are two bound and published collections with copies of early postwar newspapers easily available [...]
Although I lived in New York for two years, I never got around to visiting many of its museums. A few weeks ago I finally paid the Museum of Natural History a visit along with a good friend of mine. As some of my previous postings indicate, I have become more and more interested in [...]
Welcome to the thirteenth installment of the Asian History Carnival. Martyrdom in Islam – Gracchi of Westminster Wisdom offers a review and discussion of issues behind Rice University professor David Cook’s new book Martyrdom in Islam. Happy Birthday – Reb Chaim HaQoton writes about birthdays, Jewish theology, and various historical references to one’s day of [...]
I will be hosting the thirteenth installment of the Asian History Carnival here at Muninn on the evening of April 21st. Please make your submissions by noon the 21st, US Eastern time. See the carnival’s homepage for more information. You can nominate postings here or simply tag them with the Delicious tag: http://del.icio.us/tag/ahcarnival/ I look [...]
Carl Linné, who plays an important role in the creation of the nomenclature of the biological world (Linnaeus, W) separated the homo sapiens into a number of subcategories (1758). 1. Wild man. Four-footed, mute, hairy. 2. American. Copper-coloured, choleric, erect. Hair black, straight, thick; nostrils wide; face harsh; beard, scanty; obstinate, content, free. Paints himself [...]
I think students, researchers, and historians especially should become more aware of a disturbing trend in the world of digitized archival materials: contractual licenses replacing copyrights. I have already been concerned with this in the non-digital world. Many archives I have visited now ask visitors to sign a “license agreement” which, if you read it [...]
In order to procrastinate a bit on my fellowship applications on this slow Friday evening, I’ve been poking through some old books found on Google Books in search for works on treason trials and definitions of treason (back when it was a crime against the royal person, rather than the nation at large). Lots of [...]