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		<title>Unrecouped</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey look, I am back. I could bemoan the insidious forces that have kept me from blogging this morning, but I seem to know so many people who have been sick, injured, or lost loved ones in recent months, it really does not seem to become me to complain. And that was even without reading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=1828</link>
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		<title>Fun with Political Geography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My students and I had fun discussing political geography today.  For instance, take a look at these two maps side by side.  First, we have the presidential electoral map from 1860, from the National Atlas of the United States:

Then we have this recent study, from Open Left, depicting how white men (the only ones eligible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=1820</link>
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		<title>Academia vindicated!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Academics cleared of wrongdoing in the balloon boy saga by country sheriff:  &#8220;He may be nutty, but he&#8217;s not a professor.&#8221; Richard Heene, the mad-scientist father in the case, turns out to be a high-school educated handy-man.
(Message: I am still here, just trying to catch up with other stuff.)
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Now playing: The Broken Family Band &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=1817</link>
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		<title>Thinking Like an Early American Historian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[. . . about college students having sex. Got your attention? It&#8217;s not what you think. My attention was called on Facebook to a piece on the NYT site: &#8220;At Tufts, an Attempt to Prohibit Sex When a Roommate Is in the Room.&#8221; Kids having sex in public naturally did not turn the incisive historical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=1802</link>
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		<title>Who Could Possibly Organize American Historians?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Larry Cebula over at Northwest History has an interesting post with some suggestions for reforming the OAH.
Read the whole thing, but I&#8217;ll boil his suggestions down to the nuggets:

Make the JAH into an exclusively electronic publication
Shake up the conference (he prefers discussions and e-discussions to roundtables and traditional panels)
Establish an open, moderated blog (sort of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=1799</link>
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		<title>The Balance of Power in North America, 1794</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not around here much lately, I know. The beginning of the school year, a lingering summer project, and really depressing public occurrences have all played their roles. Today, however, let me share something I found in an old newspaper &#8212; I look at those sometimes &#8212; that fits into a theme I have worked into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=1794</link>
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		<title>A Match Made in America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t say this connection had occurred to me consciously, but it made only too much sense to see that in one suburb, at least,  two outsized, fearful items of modern conspicuous consumption have converged:  Hummers and assault weapons. It does indeed seem to take a similar mentality to think that suburban personal safety [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=1776</link>
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		<title>Conspiracy Theory-a-Go-Go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My History of Conspiracy Theory course is starting up again this week in a different format than usual, an undergraduate seminar. That I means I will be posting interesting conspiratorial bits on the blog for that course, including my vast collection of playlists that can be used to make many bitter, unsettling, though also rocking, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=1771</link>
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		<title>The Post That Drove Old Dixie Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was an interesting but overheated discussion at &#8220;Edge of the West&#8221; of a beloved piece of classic rock, The Band&#8217;s &#8220;The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.&#8221; There was contextualizin&#8217; and politicizin&#8217; a-plenty, and I made the following remarks way, way down in the comments:
Sorry I saw this late. I love &#8220;The Night They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=1768</link>
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		<title>Jim Downs: &#8216;The Interesting Narrative&#8217; of President Obama&#8217;s Trip to Ghana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Does President Obama need  a history lesson?,&#8221; asks Prof. Jim Downs of Connecticut College. Quite possibly, I would have to agree, especially on matters besides the Lincoln Administration. Obama has got the hiring your rivals and frustrating moderation parts down, anyway, but there is no doubt about his penchant for bland, comforting, conventional history [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=1757</link>
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