This week, ending in March 05 2015:
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.
In the last 48 hours I've received the proofs for my latest article and also news that a conference I attended last summer will be developed into not one but two volumes in Palgrave Macmillan's Languages at War series. It's a good thing I enjoy writing, because it seems like I'll never get to do anything else >__>
A question for scholars of the early Americas and/or the Columbian Exchange: What is the reputation of J.H. Elliott's The Old World and the New (1970)? I picked up a copy for a dollar at a library sale the other day, purely on the strength of it being in Cambridge's Canto series.
There has been a backlash from Nat Geo's article on the "lost city" from Honduras.
Rosemary Joyce made a blog post about it.
Honduran archaeologists made a complaint about it in English and in Spanish.
I think a lot of harsh words will be spoken and both sides are going to walk away with hurt feelings.