This week, ending in January 16th, 2014:
Today's thread is for open discussion of:
History in the academy
Historiographical disputes, debates and rivalries
Implications of historical theory both abstractly and in application
Philosophy of history
And so on
Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion only of matters like those above, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.
Well, Zotero has done it to me again, the second time in about a month: it has apparently not saved at least a day's worth of work, and perhaps more. It's sad to say, but my trust in the program has been shattered. It's updated, I sync it regularly, and I cannot find anything on the support forums that's like my problem, so I'm not really sure what to do. I suppose I may need to change citation programs; anyone have suggestions?
Also, the 19th century index run by Chadwyck is fucking sick. Like, it makes me so excited that I want to chug cans of beer and crush them on my forehead while chanting the subject headings that I search under.
How useful might an archive of /r/AskHistorians be to future historians in a few centuries? Is there any precedent for such a wide sampling of historical opinions, across a bunch of topics, all taken from the same period of time? Is there such a thing as a "historian of historians"?
-End stream-of-consciousness rant