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Neter@s: my stockpile of posts is beginning to shrink. I need you to contribute to this blog! I accept posts in English, Spanish, or Portuguese on libraries, archives, or websites with collections on Latin America. They can be written from the perspective of the researcher or the archivist/librarian. I also love posts like this one which focus on the “how-to” of broader research topics relevant to Latin Americanists, Caribbeanists, or border scholars. Others have written about how they’ve used Research Corner to teach research skills to undergraduates or graduate students. If you would like

Heather Coleman. Warm Socks from the Frontline

Iryna Skubii Blog Post

 Three years ago today, Tetiana Kalenychenko gave me these wonderful warm socks. She had come to Edmonton for a conference I had organized and that we promptly had to cancel once everyone arrived, due to the declaration of the global pandemic. Tania was the last of our guests to leave and I took her around downtown, which was eerily like a ghost town, and she came over for supper with our family. Poor Tania would then have an epic journey home, trapped first in Frankfurt and then in Minsk, and finally making it to Kyiv days later.

These are my Covid socks and my war socks. Tania had been

New Blog "Reflections"

Iryna Skubii Blog Post

Welcome to New Blog “Reflections”

Dear H-Ukraine community,

We are happy to share with you the exciting news about our new initiative - "Reflections." This new blog is aimed to create an inviting environment to publish your stories and personal reflections about Ukraine, your experiences as a scholar in/of Ukraine, and thoughts about the field of studies. We envision this blog as an informal place to express personal emotions and articulate ideas, which you have in mind, but have not been sure where to publish them. Today we are posting a very thoughtful and emotional first story. Please give it

Don Longo, A Historian Against the Current: The Life and Work of Austin Gough. Mile End, SA: Wakefield Press, 2021.

Doug Munro, History Wars: The Peter Ryan – Manning Clark Controversy. Canberra: ANU Press, 2021. Available as a free download: https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/history-wars

With history wars heating up again in many countries, particularly where histories of race, racism, and colonialism are concerned, it seemed like a good time to check in with some biographers who have studied historians in a history wars setting. As luck would have it, biographers Doug Munro and Don Longo

African American Women and Suffrage in Louisville, A StoryMap with Biosketches

Randolph Hollingsworth (she/her) Blog Post

We are very excited to introduce you to the new open access work by Dr. Carol Mattingly that provides great insight on the history of African American Women and Suffrage in Louisville. Dr. Mattingly, Professor Emerita of English at the University of Louisville, has been working for some time in a collaborative effort to find and collect together the evidence of African American women activism in Kentucky's largest city. Emily Barrett, a graduate student at the University of Kentucky, created the ArcGIS Story Map where the information can be found.

The site includes a general essay along with

Virtual Grad Student & ECR Meet-n-Greet

Robyn Davis Blog Post

Calling @SHEARites Grad Students and Early Career Scholars.... 

Missing SHEAR this summer?  Catch up with your peers and meet new SHEARites online!  Join the virtual SHEAR Grads and ECRs Happy Hour, Saturday 18 July 2020, 3:00 to 5:00 pm via Zoom.  Register now:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0Urc9FN0We42u_DDpYuYHqH1e2qD3q2IpXhF025dsetQWbw/viewform

Spots are limited.  First come, first served.

Questions? Contact Evelyn Strope (ems92@cam.ac.uk) or Aaron Chin (alc1021@wildcats.unh.edu)

4th Annual Second-Book Writers' Workshop - ONLINE EDITION

Robyn Davis Blog Post

4th Annual SHEAR Second-Book Writers’ Workshop – ONLINE EDITION

SHEAR is pleased to announce the fourth annual SHEAR Second-Book Writers’ Workshop and invites applications for our first ever VIRTUAL session July 16, 2020.  

The journey from first to second book can be a difficult one. From choosing a topic for a second book to finding the time and support to research and write, the structure that guides the writing of the dissertation and first book disappears. Many of us struggle with this transition. We wonder if it makes sense to continue a research trajectory clearly laid out in our first

Test Post 2-Become a Guest-Blogger for H-LatAm

Gretchen Pierce (She/her/hers) Blog Post

H-LatAm is beginning a new blog called Research Corner. It will focus on archives and libraries both in Latin America as well as those in other parts of the world with significant holdings on Latin America. As such, if you have recently done research or if you work in such an institution, please consider guest blogging for us. Posts on less frequently used archives or libraries will be especially appreciated. Final blog posts should be between 500 and 700 words, and can be in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. To

Handgrenade of the Month October 2018

John Kuehn Blog Post

October 2018 Handgrenade of the Month

What IS applied Military History?

No, war-on-terror-drenched minds, the IS does not stand for Islamic State, it is for the present tense form of the verb” to be.”

More specifically, how does one use military history to support a curriculum focused on large scale combat operations by a combined arms, western-type division in a conventional war setting?

Should one limit valuable education time to just this sort of use of history, dumping one’s curriculum that talks about nuclear deterrence, joint warfare by the other services, and the strategic context of the

The Warrior Ethos--HGOTM July 2016

John Kuehn Blog Post

Handgrenade of the Month July 2016

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John T. Kuehn

The Warrior Ethos versus the Professional Officer Ethos

(This one wrote itself)

Warrior-Schwarrior. A recent article extolled the warrior ethos in today’s military. #Essays on War: Warrior Ethos by Zach Mierva—which riffed off of the _Warrior Ethos_ by Steven Pressfield.  Recently there have been some grumbling about the so-called decline of this ethos.

This is what happens when wars wind down and fewer and fewer folks spend less and less time in combat.   This is a natural and healthy process I think.   I do not think it necessarily a bad thing.