https://matthewbgilmore.wordpress.com/2023/06/01/decoration-day-1869-washington-dc/
The Grand Army of the Republic, in 1868, inaugurated the tradition which would lead to our modern Memorial Day holiday.
Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic,
Washington, D.C., May 5, 1868.
The following announcements from H-Net may be of interest to some JHistory list members.
Submitted by Margaret DeLacy, acting as H-Scholar subscriber:
Friends:
Below is a link to a story by Anna Abalkina from the Retraction Watch blog entitled "Three journals’ web domains expired. Then major indexes pointed to hijacked versions"
Retraction Watch offers a "hijacked journal" list here:
Living in a Material World
MAY 2023 NEWSLETTER
Gretchen Pierce is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-editor of Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History (University of Arizona Press, 2014) with Áurea Toxqui, and has published a number of articles, book chapters, and academic blog posts on temperance, beer, and advertising in Mexico.
[Submitted by Margaret DeLacy, acting as subscriber]
Friends:
Yesterday's Scholarly Kitchen blog carried an opinion by Roy Kaufman entitled,"Swimming in the AI Data Lake: Why Disclosure and Versions of Record Are More Important than Ever."
Kaufman points out that AI services such as Chat GPT are only as good as the materials they are trained on. If an application is ctitical, it is important to train the program on the most reliable sources ("versions of record").
18th Century (to 1815):
• Military Book Review Unhappy Catastrophes: The American Revolution in Central New Jersey, 1776-1782 https://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/2428
Friends:
The Elephant roundup from the H-Net book channel is filled with relevant links, so I am posting it in its entirety.
Margaret
[Margaret DeLacy acting as editor]
