Comments on: Alfred F. Young, 1925-2012

By: Life, death, and early America : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:15:36 +0000

[...] History and Culture’s newsletter, Uncommon Sense, has published an online memorial to Alfred F. Young that includes links to reflections on his life and work from thirty different historians, including [...]

By: Comradde PhysioProffe

Comradde PhysioProffe — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 03:47:19 +0000

Sounds like this dude was a very interesting historian. When I studied early american legal history, the only books we were assigned were by dudes like Bailyn and Wood. I seem to recall there was some “controversy” about which Wood and Bailyn represented the two sides, although this was a long time ago, and I have forgotten the details.

By: truffula

truffula — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:47:24 +0000

challenging information & ideas

Excellent. We have been back on a relative evaluations of the Presidents kick lately, presumably due to the election. Our current thing is Washington v. Jefferson. Founding of the country conversations for us alway start with some discounting for rich-dude attributes so I’m particularly interested in this book on those grounds.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:32:07 +0000

Re Susan’s comment: since I didn’t go to graduate school intending or expecting to study in the field(s) that I now practice in, and indeed by and large *didn’t* study anything about them there, I can truly say that pretty nearly everything I may now know about the latter fields I learned from–or in company with–colleagues who are much junior to me in the technical terms by which we measure that status. Including Historiann, I must say.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:23:52 +0000

truffula: I think your children might enjoy some of the stories in that book. (This is not to say that it’s a children’ book; rather, I know that you have presented your children with a great deal of challenging information & ideas, so portions of the book might work with them.)

By: truffula

truffula — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:44:31 +0000

I just bought a used copy of The Shoemaker and the Tea Party for myself. Thanks for that!

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:28:12 +0000

All of us scholars should hope that when we’re retired and important, we still remember how much we have to learn from our junior colleagues. That is the mark of a great historian.

By: Publick Occurrences 2.0

Publick Occurrences 2.0 — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:11:02 +0000

[...] can read blog tributes by J. L. Bell, Josh Brown, and Ann Little, and H-OIEAHC posts by David Waldstreicher, Mike McDonnell, and Kenneth Lockridge; also make [...]

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:43:39 +0000

Well, whoever it was, you beat his mouldy britch, or something like that. Only to get the blood flowing on the Near North side in that kind of weather.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:39:40 +0000

Indyanna, it was Daniel Scott Smith of UIC. He mistakenly believed that my paper about 17th C English masculinity was asking him when he was going to stop beating his wife, or something. Good times! Good times. And good for Al for getting the hell out of Chicago in February! Thanks for your thoughts, MsMcD. David Waldstreicher has a nice remembrance up at OIEAHC-net.