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AMERICAN HISTORY / STUDIES

Morison, in volume 3 of his HIstory of U.S. Naval Opertions in WWII, was highly critcal of Fletcher's abortive attemp to relieve Wake, going so far as to suggest that Fletcher should have made a 20-knot run in without his destroyers (which needed to be refuelded).  As I wrote in Gray Steel and Black Oil:

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CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS

Dear Colleagues, 

After a long delay, volume 79/80 of The Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (BMFEA) has been published, and contains the following articles.

The Pitfalls of Second-hand Information: On the Traditionalist Dogma in Chinese Excavation Reports. Armin Selbitschka. 

Han Views of the Qin Legacy and the Late Western Han “Classical Turn.” Michael Nylan.

Self-inscriptions: On Textual Figuration in Sima Qian and Ban Gu. Dinu Luca.

A Layer of Old Chinese Readings in the Old Zhuang Script. David Holm.

Sounds like the US Navy had many fathers over the first few decades of American independence. But I'll go a bit further with regard to Thomas Jefferson -- he was worse than a "land-lubber," he was an epic cheapskate when it came to funding for national defense. His "Jeffersonian Republican" followers were just as bad: during the War of 1812 they dominated Congress, and were very enthusiastic about going to war with Great Britain but amazingly reluctant to pay for it.

Call for articles for a special issue of the Journal Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique (n. 3, 2021).