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	<title>The History Blog</title>
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		<title>High School history deficiency&#8211;ignorance, or something else?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/12/02/high-school-history-deficiency-ignorance-or-something-else/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/12/02/high-school-history-deficiency-ignorance-or-something-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting opinion piece from the Chronicle of Higher Education, with comments that follow, on the issue of how to improve the historical knowledge of secondary school students. What do you think? [BP] December 01, 2009, 07:00 AM ET History Outside the Classroom By Mark Bauerlein On the 2001 NAEP US history exam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 1960s or the 1980s??</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/11/10/the-1960s-or-the-1980s/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/11/10/the-1960s-or-the-1980s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm X vs. Spike Lee&#8230; JFK vs. Reagan&#8230; The Fugitive vs. The A-Team&#8230; The Beatles vs. U2&#8230; ? This article bemoans the tendency of college students in 2009 to still take courses on the US in the 1960s, while they (and their professors) ignore the 1980s. What do you think? And who thinks the 1970s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historians and ethics</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/11/09/historians-and-ethics/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/11/09/historians-and-ethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a career option for History majors&#8211;working for tobacco companies! (?) This article discusses controversy over the companies&#8217; use of historians who testify in their favor in court and in depositions. An interesting ethical issue. [BP]]]></description>
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		<title>Upstate New York and Political Parties</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/11/08/upstate-new-york-and-political-parties/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/11/08/upstate-new-york-and-political-parties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have heard, there was an unusual special election for a U.S. House seat in upper New York State last Tuesday. The Democratic candidate won. As this article shows, portions of the current district (which sprawls across the Adirondack mountains) have been represented in Congress only by Republicans ever since the 1850s, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Brown &#8211; &#8220;The Meteor of War&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/10/16/john-brown-the-meteor-of-war/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/10/16/john-brown-the-meteor-of-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article notes the 150th anniversary of John Brown&#8217;s raid at Harper&#8217;s Ferry. The author (as well as the National Park Service) assumes that the raid was &#8220;the opening salvo&#8221; in the American Civil War. Was it really? Or did the conflict instead start earlier (Nat Turner revolt, Mexican War, Bleeding Kansas), or later (Fort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Know Much about History</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/10/02/dont-know-much-about-history/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/10/02/dont-know-much-about-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad news: about a third of the students in my introductory American history course don&#8217;t know who was president during the Civil War. An equal number don&#8217;t know who Warren G. Harding was, either, which is easier to overlook. But the absence of historical knowledge raises serious questions for those of us who love history. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Paul McCartney is Dead&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/18/paul-mccartney-is-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/18/paul-mccartney-is-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[40 years ago this week a student newspaper started one of the most notorious rumors of the 1960s.  Check it out here. [BP]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling a Little too Clever</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/17/feeling-a-little-too-clever/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/17/feeling-a-little-too-clever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feeling Clever. One of the perils of being a professor is that it can encourage you to think you are clever. I’m sure there are other professions where this is true, but it is definitely the case here. This is the story. As a life-long resident of the northeast and a person with specific view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arguing over the Uses and Abuses of History</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/16/arguing-over-the-uses-and-abuses-of-history/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/16/arguing-over-the-uses-and-abuses-of-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/?p=84</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[     Last Saturday&#8217;s march in Washington, D.C. has sparked controversy among pundits, politicians, and yes, even historians.  Two issues seem to dominate the discussions.  The first, on whether racism played a significant role in the protests, has ignited a particularly sharp debate.  The second, the uses and abuses of history, raises critical questions for history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those town hall meetings</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/16/those-town-hall-meetings/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/16/those-town-hall-meetings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One professor takes a mild view of the recent health care town hall events, citing historical perspective.  What do you think of his argument?  Click here.  [BP]]]></description>
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		<title>150 years ago</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/12/150-years-ago/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/12/150-years-ago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happened 150 years ago this week? This US senator was killed in a duel. See this story&#8211;click here. [BP]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Them Eat Cake! and Other American Stories</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/10/let-them-eat-cake-and-other-american-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/10/let-them-eat-cake-and-other-american-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Less Government! Am I Alone?&#8221; reads a yard sign in Bethel. Every time I pass it, I&#8217;m tempted to stop and invite the sign&#8217;s author to tell me more. I had the same reaction to the folks in August&#8217;s town hall meetings when angry constituents yelled at Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Arlen Specter of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loving Students in the Fall</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/09/loving-students-in-the-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/09/loving-students-in-the-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/?p=60</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post – which I forgot to sign – I started my positive professor campaign. I don’t want anyone to be confused, I can complain with the best of them, but the truth is that ground is well covered elsewhere. But I am neither as erudite (which I can’t spell correctly either) nor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tightening Double Bind:  Women in the News</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/05/the-tightening-double-bind-women-in-the-news/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/05/the-tightening-double-bind-women-in-the-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABC News announced the appointment of Diana Sawyer this week as the replacement for announcer Charlie Gibson on its nightly news. Critics quickly complained that Sawyer lacked journalistic chops, and noted the prospect of two female anchors, Sawyer and CBS’s Katie Couric. Because I’m not particularly a Sawyer fan – how does she look so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.K.&#8217;s Guardian starts series on World War II</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/05/uks-guardian-starts-series-on-world-war-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/05/uks-guardian-starts-series-on-world-war-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fans of the Greatest Generation will be interested in a seven-part series starting Saturday in The Guardian. You can catch it by following the link below, or going to www.guardian.co.uk.]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Like Being a Professor</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/04/why-i-like-being-a-professor/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/04/why-i-like-being-a-professor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking about a lot of things to write about. Some reflecting on how politics spin back to life in Connecticut (The coup installed regime of Honduras has removed Professor Dario Euraque of Trinity College illegally from his position in its Ministry of Culture for example) but when this started I promised myself I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unworkable Government</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/01/unworkable-government/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/01/unworkable-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman, the Nobel economist, raised the issue of whether our national government has become unworkable. I&#8217;ve had those thoughts as well. Increasingly it seems as if the introduction of constant media, with explosive repeating &#8220;news&#8221; commentators, and the ability of marginal groups to organize through the internet threaten the survival of civil government. Any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kennedy and McNamara:  Forgiveness and Blame in America</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/01/kennedy-and-mcnamara-forgiveness-and-blame-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/01/kennedy-and-mcnamara-forgiveness-and-blame-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      Historians tend to avoid the type of questions our philosopher colleagues deal with routinely.  The deaths of Senator Edward Kennedy and former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara nevertheless lead us into thorny issues of morality and politics.  Both men struggled to overcome public failings, and each, damaged, sought to rededicate his efforts to public service.      Kennedy, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New View of the Death Penalty</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/01/a-new-view-of-the-death-penalty/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/09/01/a-new-view-of-the-death-penalty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current New Yorker features a fascinating examination of a Texas death penalty case by reporter David Grann. Convicted on the basis of faulty forensic evidence, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Texas in 2004 for the deaths of his three daughters Now forensic experts are convinced that the fire which caused the children&#8217;s deaths [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/08/31/28/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chronicle of Higher Education August 31, 2009 Professors Embrace Online Courses Despite Qualms About Quality Click here for this article. &#8211;Burt Peretti]]></description>
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		<title>Where the learning happens.</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/08/28/where-the-learning-happens/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/08/28/where-the-learning-happens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had made some plans about what my initial posts would be for this blog but a few events of today turned my head in a different direction. I attended a ceremony for incoming students and their families today; doing my best to look professorial in my academic regalia. Since this is really the only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Time Traveler goes to Kykuit</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/08/26/the-time-traveler-goes-to-kykuit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/08/26/the-time-traveler-goes-to-kykuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[     The Hudson Valley in New York, a short trip from Danbury, offers historical travelers a number of excellent day tours.  Kykuit, the home built by millionaire John D. Rockefeller in the early twentieth century, allows for a close look at four generations of Rockefeller contributions to business, politics, and art.      The Kykuit tours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School (Again)</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/08/25/back-to-school-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[     Everyone I know is preparing for the start of a new school year, or so it seems.  I just returned from my third “take the kid to college” trip.  My friend Paul is prepping his kindergarten classroom, meeting new students and parents who are just a bit worried about a big transition.  Among our historians on this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Numbers:  The Deficit and a Trillion</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/08/25/big-numbers-the-deficit-and-a-trillion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s news that the national budget deficit will be $9 trillion over the next ten years made many of us gasp. That seems like an amazing amount of money, particularly in light of the average American wage, which the Social Security Administration pegged at around $40,000 in 2007. But perhaps it isn&#8217;t so large after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Traveler Goes to Gettysburg</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/08/18/time-traveler-goes-to-gettysburg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From time to time The History Blog will write about historical sites and destinations suitable for a family day trip or a short weekend.) Most Americans know Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as the sight of one of the most significant battles of the Civil War. For three days in 1863, Union and Confederate forces fought throughout the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students born in 1991&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/wcsuhistory/2009/08/18/students-born-in-1991/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what incoming freshmen in 2009 might not know.  &#8211;Burt]]></description>
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