Tag: History & Humanities
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A cohort is a battalion…
“That bad, huh?” the brother said when I slapped down Phil Sabin’s Lost Battles on the table in the campus Starbucks as he joined me for coffee yesterday. Actually, it is not bad at all – far from it. It is a good book, the product of many years of careful scholarship, and a useful…
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November in Cork
Everyone is cold and a bit SAD this week. Many of my 9am class on International Organisations didn’t make it this morning, but I’ve put the class video up on the Moodle LMS for them to download. I’m not sure if this is entirely fair on the people who actually made the effort, but since…
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Ahmadinajad 1, Pragmatists 2?
I was pleasantly surprised to see an Associated Press photo on the BBC website this morning showing a smiling Ali Larijni, Iran’s pragmatic but now fired nuclear negotiator, chatting to Javier Solana in Rome while his hardline replacemant, Saeed Jalili, stood by looking like something he just ate was disagreed with him. I can’t help…
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Gleanings off the web
Jeremy Black and Francis Fukuyama provide two essential readings for my students on the web this week. Black’s piece on ‘Why teach military history’ is reprinted by Mark Grimsley on his blog – the piece says nothing very new but is a very good start point which covers most of the bases but manages to…
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Who is the Taoiseach?
No, not politics, but history. I’ve been reading the Dail debates for the first few years of UNIFIL, from 1978 to 1982. Unfortunately, in the debates, the Taoiseach of the day is not referred to by name so I have to go off and check to see when Charlie replaced Jack. This is inconsistent, since…
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Fun with Zotero
I’ve been using Zotero in ways which I suspect the designers didn’t think of, but I am lazy and creative when it comes to work. If you don’t know, Zotero is a Firefox plugin for managing bibliographic information in academic writing – it is an absolute gem for managing references, which are the bane of…
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Windows Free OCR
Did you know that XP has built in OCR? And it is actually good? I scan some books, but I also use my digital camera to capture a lot of books and archival research , which I can carry on my laptop as .jpgs. Using the Portable Apps version of Gimp, I can convert those…
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Those Danish Cartoons…
The Danes have added a fresh member to what E.H.Carr would call the ‘club of historical facts’ – the Great Cartoon War of 2006. What is it all about and how will it play as history?
