Snarky Yeti

"And that's all the people need to know!"

YouTube video by Stax Records Johnnie Taylor - I Am Somebody (Official Visualizer)

Sing along with Johnnie.

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Why does a book have a word limit? That's ridiculous. It's not a greeting card!

A New Science: The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology By Bruce Mazlish

Are you familiar with Bruce Mazlish's A New Science?

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The 70s are back, baby!

France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944 Abstract. This book examines French experiences of occupation during the ‘Black Years’ of 1940–1944. Pulling together previously separate ‘histories’ of oc

Julian Jackson's France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944

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Roses are red
Grades have been readied
You would have done better
If only you had studied

You're punching up here, and that's good. But I assume you would turn down neither a Pulitzer nor a National Book Award. 🙂

You didn't know my buddy George Gipp. The last thing he said to me was
"sometime, when BlueSky is up against it -- and the breaks are beating the boys -- tell them to go out there with all they got and post just one for the Gipper..."

"Hat man bemerkt, daß die Musik den Geist frei macht? dem Gedanken Flügel gibt? daß man um so mehr Philosoph wird, je mehr man Musiker wird?" --Friedrich Nietzsche

As a backbone covering the period, you could do worse than Tim Blanning's The Pursuit of Glory, which covers a long 18th. The work of a mature scholar and (I thought) a delightful read to boot.

I don't understand how microhistories can be useful in a *survey* class. I would think that in that kind of class you want to impart the kind of overview that microhistories and primary sources can later enrich and clarify. 18th century Europe is a MASSIVE scope!

"I'm not selling out. I'm buying in."

Happy Birthday 🙂

Four of the members of the Olympic team are from my hometown. Almost half are from Minnesota.

I'll bet that's good too!

Do you make Ro-Tel dip?

For some reason that house made me think of the house we called the Flintstone house when I was growing up.

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None of the books I read have this stuff going on. RETVRN

These guys have a question. Well, it's more of a comment than a question....

The photos you post usually make Japan look like an eternal spring, enchanted and beautiful. Alas, it is subject to terrestrial seasons!

"Ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste." --Karl Marx

OMG, that is a vibe.

Yes! A great book.

Indeed, former Minnesota North Star Dino Ciccarelli turms 66 tomorrow.

The Hollow Years '[Told with] learning and verve. . . . A scintillating introduction to this troubled French decade.'-Charles S. Maier, <em>New York Times Book Review</em>, The Hollow Years, France in the 1930s, Eu...

Eugen Weber's The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s.

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I have not, but I would.

I like interleaving the usual historiography with bios. As Eugen Weber wrote: "History that does not feature individuals is a hollow exercise. And history that ignores the everyday aspects of life and culture is even more incomplete than it is bound to be."