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Here’s some thoughts on youth in history from my oral reading notes:
Stories of twentieth-century urban youth.
When compared to the scholarship on the history of childhood, it is striking that most of the writings on the history of youth deal exclusively with the twentieth century (with an important exception of John Gillis). As Hobsbawm calls it [...]
I just went to a talk by a guest historian about historians’ obligation to engage in politics. The talk was straightforward. The speaker’s point was the following and she just gave a bunch of examples.
Historians should engage in political debates because, if we don’t, others do and misuse histories. Politicians make all sorts of historical [...]