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  List of historians of the French Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a partial list of historians of the French Revolution.
Lynn Hunt - Though often characterized as a "feminist" interpreter of the Revolution, Hunt is a consummate historian, and relatively conservative for a feminist historian.
Writing at the juncture of the Revisionist, the neo-Revisionist, and the anti-Revisionist understandings of the Revolution, Hunt's focus on a literal "body politic" represents both sexes, and all classes, in the 18th century political sphere.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_historians_of_the_French_Revolution   (927 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Historians use many types of sources, including written or printed records, interviews (oral history), and archaeology.
A form of historical speculation known commonly as virtual history (also called "counterfactual history") been adopted by some historians as a means of assessing and exploring the possible outcomes if certain events had not occurred or had occurred in a different way to that which they did.
You may also want to see dubious historical resources and historical myths for a list of false beliefs and histories which were once or are now popular and widespread, but which are proven to be false or dubious.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_2.html   (301 words)

  
 List of historians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, (1610–1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist
Otto Maria Carpeaux, (1900–1978) foremost historian of literature
Detlev Peukert, historian of Alltagsgeschichte (history of everyday life) in the Weimar and Nazi eras.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_historians   (2109 words)

  
 Historian -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
While historian was used as the slang term for a secret policeman in Yugoslavia under Tito, the term is now often reserved for people whose work is recognized in academia, particularly those who have acquired graduate degrees in the discipline.
Many of the historians of the past have been called upon to write histories either to furnish a king or a ruling class with a lineage, thereby offering it legitimacy, or to give a people a cultural heritage and sense of identity.
This meant that the works of these historians openly mixed oratory, poetry and literature in a way which is incompatible with the contemporary concern for impartiality and objectivity.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Historian   (908 words)

  
 Email Lists About Women's Health
The list is open to people who have experienced c-section, parents who wish to avoid a c-section, people who wish to have a vaginal birth after a Caesarean, or professionals wishing to contribute.
The lists can be high volume (upwards of 100 messages per day in many cases), so you may prefer to sign up for the digest version, which consolidates the messages into a large bundle to reduce e-mail clutter.
List participants can discuss the pros and cons of various treatments and offer support to each other in dealing with conditions that lovers, family, and friends often don't understand.
research.umbc.edu /~korenman/wmst/f_hlth.html   (4964 words)

  
 List of historians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Charles du Fresne sieur du Cange (1610 – 1688) Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist
Jonathan Atkins American historian pre-civil war U.S. Charles A. Beard (1874 – 1948) American historian An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of United States.
Ludwig Quidde (1858 – 1941) historian and pacifist
www.freeglossary.com /Historian   (1560 words)

  
 Women-Related Arts and Humanities Email Lists
FACES-L is "an international mailing list that connects women activists, artists, critics, theoreticians, technicians, journalists, researchers, programmers, networkers, web designers, and educators: women who share an interest in the media and communication arts." It is not a chat list but rather a cyber-resource though which women can share their projects, exhibitions, critical opinions, and texts.
FAH (Feminist Art History list) is a list for researchers, curators, art historians, faculty, students, and all those interested in discussing research issues and sharing resources of women artists throughout history.
HEYER LIST is an email forum for discussing all things pertaining to the work of novelist Georgette Heyer, including the Regency world of her novels.
research.umbc.edu /~korenman/wmst/f_arts.html   (4165 words)

  
 RITS LIST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The purpose of the list is for historians, railfans and railroad modelers to discuss the Rock Island railroad.
When you receive a message from the list and reply to it, you will find that your reply is addressed only to the individual who generated the original message.
This list is provided free of charge as a service to RITS by a non-profit institution, and must not be used to promote for-profit activities.
www.simpson.edu /~RITS/aboutrits/ritslist.html   (599 words)

  
 List of historians by area of study - Gurupedia
List of historians by area of study - Gurupedia
This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study.
Li Ao (born 1935) - Historian, author, and politician and broadcaster in the
www.gurupedia.com /l/li/list_of_historians_by_area_of_study.htm   (566 words)

  
 Quote: Originally posted by brahmabull on Theology Web
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS was a Jewish historian who became commander of the Jewish forces in Galilee in AD 66, just after the time of Jesus.
THALLUS was one of the first Gentile historians to mention Christ.
Julius points out in his writing the impossibility of this since the festival of Passover, when Jesus was crucified, occurs at full moon (eclipses only occur at a new moon).
sol.sci.uop.edu /~jfalward/HistorianList.htm   (1105 words)

  
 List of historians
Brian Farrell[?], historian and emeritus Associated Professor of Politics, UCD
Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
Simon Rutar[?], (1851-1903), historian, geographer, archaeologist and geologist.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/Historian.html   (238 words)

  
 The Great History Books and Their Authors.
He was a strong advocate of the idea that the study of history should include consideration of all cultural forces.
He wrote several books with his wife, a historian of both the feministic and the labour movements.
His eminence as historian and stylist called attention to this book, which it might not have received otherwise; as a work of history it is of negligible importance.
www.blupete.com /Library/History/Books.htm   (3398 words)

  
 CCPH Register of Professional Historians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The California Council for the Promotion of History established the Register of Professional Historians in 1986 as a list of professional historians interested in and qualified to work as public historians (that is, historians working outside of the college and university setting).
CCPH recognized that historians and those with related training were increasingly used by government and industry to do research in support of litigation, environmental impact and cultural resources work, as well as toxic waste studies.
Listings in the Register reflect the registrant's skill in history and emphasis in one of the above fields.
www.vcnet.com /sbra/RPH   (405 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing: 2 Volumes: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A list of advisors and contributors and an introduction, "Rethinking History," can be found at the beginning of volume 1.
Both volumes provide alphabetical and thematic lists of entries and a chronological list of historians.
The thematic list groups entries by region and periods (Europe, medieval, for example) and topics, from art history to women's and gender history.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1884964338   (644 words)

  
 The Secret Bestseller List
On the New York Times bestseller lists, for example, there's John Grisham's "Skipping Christmas," and David Baldacci's "The Christmas Train" — numbers 2 and 3, respectively, on the hardcover fiction list.
Disgraced historians Stephen Ambrose and Joseph Ellis appear on the paperback nonfiction list.
But they're not in the list that appears in the actual paper — the most powerful list in the country (lots of stores put Times bestsellers in front of store displays), and the one that really boosts sales.
www.mobylives.com /secret_bestsellers.html   (731 words)

  
 So many Oscar-worthy movies left out that new categories needed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Let's begin with a few best-picture lists that parallel the actual choices, and could easily have slipped their candidates in had a few nominating votes shuffled around.
The A list is great, the B list is impressive, but 2005 also spawned a tremendous C list that will prosper on DVD for months to come.
The Populist Picture list would include "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" at $380 million, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" at $288 million, "Chronicles" and "War of the Worlds" at $234 million and "King Kong" at $216 million.
www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0304should0304.html   (589 words)

  
 SAH :: Society of Architectural Historians
The moderator (list owner) is Cynthia Field, Division of Architectural History and Historic Preservation at the Smithsonian Institution.
On the listserv SAH members may post questions, research inquiries, discoveries, announcements, position listings and other material that would be of interest to architectural historians, architects, preservationists, students, and others.
When you do send a message for distribution to the list, please remember to attach your name and identification in compliance with good "netiquette." In the same vein, if you are replying to a query or message, please do not include the previous message to which you are replying in order to keep messages short.
www.sah.org /index.php?module=ContentExpress&file=index&func=display&ceid=34&meid=10   (399 words)

  
 List of historians
Frances Fitzgerald, American journalist and historian, author of the influential Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and Americans in Vietnam.
William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian, author of Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
Peter Booth Wiley, American historian, author of Yankees in the Land of the Gods: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/l/li/list_of_historians.html   (1131 words)

  
 History News Network
I've used a fairly expansive definition of who is a historian to create this list.
The list is a peculiar one, even if you excluded such people from it.
The larger list is a mirror of the fevered brain of David Horowitz.
hnn.us /blogs/entries/21743.html   (305 words)

  
 Early Modern Notes » Wikipedia on historians
I’ve been getting a lot of wikipedia biographical articles about historians coming through my Bloglines “early modern” keyword search thingy lately.
They’re building up a substantial list of historians there.
I toyed with the idea of writing on for him, but realised that it would probably be biased.
www.earlymodernweb.org.uk /emn/index.php/archives/2005/04/wikipedia-on-historians   (128 words)

  
 [ih] The List: for historians or for history actors?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As noted before, discussions of other history, including history of other technologies, etc., not directly relevant to Internet history should be taken to other email lists or elsewhere.
We hope that, as information accumulates and is validated, list participants will create condensed FAQs on specific issues, to be posted on the Postel Center website.
It is certainly more convenient to perform some editing on a document with internal formatting info - which is why RFCs may be _submitted_ in nroff, used by the RFC Editors for years.
www.postel.org /pipermail/internet-history/2001-August/000013.html   (302 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | 'Worst' historical Britons named
Historians have put together a list of the 10 "worst" Britons of the last 1,000 years.
They chose one rogue from each century of the last millennium to compile the list for the BBC History Magazine.
Magazine editor Dave Musgrove said the different "definitions of wickedness" of the 10 historians questioned had led to a diverse list.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/4560716.stm   (411 words)

  
 Early Modern Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(She’s also posted the raw list of submissions via Blog Carnival for tagging purposes, which reveals over 45 submissions - many of which look pretty good - were made using the submission form.
You don’t need to be a professional historian, you just need to be interested in history and have some familiarity with the history blogosphere; you could be either an established or a newer blogger (it’s a great way to bring in new visitors!), named or pseudonymous.
Volunteers are needed from mid-July onwards… You don’t need to be a professional historian, you just need to be interested in history and have some familiarity with the history blogosphere; you could be either an established or a newer blogger (it’s a great way to bring in new visitors!).
earlymodernweb.org.uk /emn/index.php/.../04/wikipedia-on-historians   (1963 words)

  
 Graduate & Faculty Ministries: Faith & Scholarship: A Bibliography for Christian Historians
This bibliography offers a focused list of readings (and an organization) for historians who are asking the question of what it means to be Christians in the university.
Herbert Butterfield is well-known as an outstanding intellectual historian and also as a Christian historian.
Christian historians should be aware of the Conference on Faith and History, which despite its name is not just a meeting but in fact a society.
www.intervarsity.org /gfm/resource_item.php?id=3285   (1063 words)

  
 History On-Line
Teachers of historical subjects are included whether they are members of a school of History or not, and the principal departments represented are listed in the heading to each institution.
Historians in all institutions funded by the various Higher Education Funding Councils are included.
Names are listed alphabetically and heads of departments, where known, are marked with an asterisk.
www.history.ac.uk /ihr/Resources/Teachers   (216 words)

  
 ACLS History E-Book Project: Title List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Suggestions for the list were also solicited from individual scholars within the societies whom we asked to contact us directly or through the society's project liaison.
These lists were then reviewed by a panel of noted historians.
This active formation of the list and its careful match with the new XML titles gives the History E-Book Project a great advantage over other current collections of electronic books, and provides a valuable model of how future collections might be assembled.
www.historyebook.org /titlelist.html   (464 words)

  
 BRHSlist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The purpose of the list is for historians, railfans and railroad modelers to discuss the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad and/or its predecessors.
When you send a message to the list address (CBQ@YahooGroups.com), it will be distributed to all of the list subscribers.
The List owner and moderators reserve the right to stop any conversation thread that they determine is off topic.
www.burlingtonroute.com /CBQlist.html   (499 words)

  
 Internet History of Science Service Celebrates First Birthday of Online Symposium - Spr. 98
Whatever the reason, it appears that on this list, as on others, the ratio of subscribers to participants is large.
A discussion of the difficulties of writing about transnational scientific developments in an era when most historians are trained to write only national histories brought in comments from scholars in Britain, Russia and Israel, including a lively debate about the linguistic shortcomings of U.S. trained scholars.
This is a "moderated" list, steering clear of the competitive ego displays sometimes found on open lists (editors can block intemperate submissions).
www.aip.org /history/newsletter/spr98/h-list.htm   (608 words)

  
 Historians and Electronic Resources: A Citation Analysis
As research libraries invest considerable resources into the creation and maintenance of digital collections and in the acquisition of databases, an evaluation of the level of usage should be conducted to keep collections focused on the needs of their users, including History faculty, who conduct and publish research.
The list of historians was obtained from the faculty Web pages posted by the individual departments.
The time frame of this study is too brief and current use of electronic resources by historians too tentative to argue there is an emerging trend in the acceptance of electronic resources.
mcel.pacificu.edu /JAHC/JAHCIII3/WORKS/Graham.html   (1827 words)

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