Marc | October 7, 2008
I just finished re-reading a very interesting post by John Matthew Barlow over at the CT Lab on Objectivity and Revisionist Historiography. Towards the end of it, he notes As the American historian Peter Novick notes, the idea of objectivity in history is about progress, moving towards some objective truth about the past. But this [...]
Marc | October 2, 2008
I’ve been heavily involved with the Hamdan Symposium over at the CT Lab, and a lot of the time I had for blogging (which isn’t all that mch ) is being taken up over there for now. Things should get back to normal over the weekend.
Marc | October 1, 2008
Note: This is a very difficult post for me to write. The difficulty doesn’t lie with the subject area but, rather, in what language I will have to use in order to try and communicate my thoughts on the topic. One of the axiomatic assumptions that professions, as a group, seem to hold is a [...]
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