Monday, March 26, 2007
Call for Hosts!
It's ironic, but the Carnival of Bad History is run by a procrastinator.... Anyway, we need hosts for future editions. Any of them: pick a month. We usually run the carnival late in the month, but the exact date is flexible. Historians, debunkers, lovers of truth or haters of lies, all are welcome!
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The Return of CoBH
The Carnival of Bad History decided to play snowbird and flew off to warmer climes for the month of January. Now it's back, tanned and rested, and ready to do that funky, bad history thing. This month Rob MacDougall does the honors at Old is the New New. Rob serves up a healthy plate-full of debunked quotes, urban legends, jaywalking historians, bat-men on the moon, and holocaust denial, with a nice tall glass of Kool-Aid to wash it down. You won't want to miss this one.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Carnival #12 Supplement
Welcome to the supplement to the 12th carnival of bad history. Apparently there was some mixup with Blogcarnival.com and their submissions, David Noon ended up doing a lot of work on his own. Here's the blogcarnival submissions, though (with a few unsuitable ones removed):
Tony Blair Pulls a Clinton posted at The Dugout, in which the British apology for slavery falls short of a real historical commemoration.
Pearl Harbor and the longue duree posted at Frog In A Well: Japan, in which I tackle some really sloppy historical causation.
A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict posted at Samson BLinded, is a disturbingly positive comparison between 1917 Russian Bolsheviks and contemporary Israeli right-wingers.
The Armstrong Tautologies posted at Avant News, is a charming satire of the recent technical recovery of Neil Armstrong's lost preposition.
An Occidental-Muslim's Criticism of Empires and Orthodoxies posted at Wa Salaam takes onone of the regular Bad Historians, Bernard a scholar I've never heard of, John Lewis.
The Little Professor had two pieces nominated: My year in books (with a special appendix on Victorian anti-Catholic sermons), a reminder that inarticulate intolerance is nothing new...."; and Department of ironic similarities, in which the pitfalls of making up words to describe your antagonists turn out to be well-established.
The Source of the National Debt, Why It Will NEVER Be Paid, and Why the Federal Reserve Should Be Liquidated, Part 1 of 2 posted at Bill Losapio is a fascinating example of the profligate use of "cabal" and "shady", not to mention basic misunderstandings of economic theory and practice. I never thought, when I first came on board this carnival, that people would self-nominate their own worst work....
Conrad Black: "Let them eat cake" posted at Sox First, in which mega-rich Black compares himself to a French nobleman during the Revolution.
Roy Moore on Keith Ellison posted at another history blog, dismantles, though it's an easy target, blatherings about the "Pilgrim roots" of the US.
That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of bad history using our carnival submission form.
Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
Technorati tags: carnival of bad history, blog carnival.
Tony Blair Pulls a Clinton posted at The Dugout, in which the British apology for slavery falls short of a real historical commemoration.
Pearl Harbor and the longue duree posted at Frog In A Well: Japan, in which I tackle some really sloppy historical causation.
A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict posted at Samson BLinded, is a disturbingly positive comparison between 1917 Russian Bolsheviks and contemporary Israeli right-wingers.
The Armstrong Tautologies posted at Avant News, is a charming satire of the recent technical recovery of Neil Armstrong's lost preposition.
An Occidental-Muslim's Criticism of Empires and Orthodoxies posted at Wa Salaam takes on
The Little Professor had two pieces nominated: My year in books (with a special appendix on Victorian anti-Catholic sermons), a reminder that inarticulate intolerance is nothing new...."; and Department of ironic similarities, in which the pitfalls of making up words to describe your antagonists turn out to be well-established.
The Source of the National Debt, Why It Will NEVER Be Paid, and Why the Federal Reserve Should Be Liquidated, Part 1 of 2 posted at Bill Losapio is a fascinating example of the profligate use of "cabal" and "shady", not to mention basic misunderstandings of economic theory and practice. I never thought, when I first came on board this carnival, that people would self-nominate their own worst work....
Conrad Black: "Let them eat cake" posted at Sox First, in which mega-rich Black compares himself to a French nobleman during the Revolution.
Roy Moore on Keith Ellison posted at another history blog, dismantles, though it's an easy target, blatherings about the "Pilgrim roots" of the US.
That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of bad history using our carnival submission form.
Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
Technorati tags: carnival of bad history, blog carnival.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Bad History Time, Part 12
The twelfth installment of the Carnival of Bad History is up at The Axis of Evel Knievel. This month we learn how how many battleships were really sunk at Pearl Harbor, get a nomination for the worst ever portrayal of JFK in a movie, discuss the proper name for the unpleasantness in Iraq, and get a big heapin' helpin' of Pinochet.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
What's a Henge?
Natalie Bennett has done a lovely job with The Eleventh Carnival of Bad History. Seems to be a high Stonehenge ratio this month.... Thanks!
The next edition -- Get your Bad Christmas History stories in early! -- will be at Axis of Evel Knievel, which recently hosted the History Carnival. We have a host for January, but it's not too soon to start thinking about hosting next year -- heck, three guys have already started running for president in 2008!
The next edition -- Get your Bad Christmas History stories in early! -- will be at Axis of Evel Knievel, which recently hosted the History Carnival. We have a host for January, but it's not too soon to start thinking about hosting next year -- heck, three guys have already started running for president in 2008!
Monday, October 23, 2006
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Wouldn't be Bad if...
...I could keep to a schedule. Yes, I'm an historian who can't keep track of dates. I didn't note Miland Brown's bravura hosting of our September carnival, nor did I note the fact that our brave founder, John McKay, aka archy will be hosting our next edition in a little over a week.
It's a Bad history carnival, not a neat, tidy chronology carnival, right?
It's a Bad history carnival, not a neat, tidy chronology carnival, right?
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Carnival of Bad History #7
The seventh installment of this now-monthly event is up at Hiram Hover's. Go on over, have a good bad history time!
Monday, June 12, 2006
Call for Hosts!
There's been so much great bad history on the web in the last few weeks (e.g. this or this or this), I'm seriously considering doing it myself, but before I do (and because I have other things I need to take care of this week) I want to give a last call for volunteers. Anyone who wants to put their name at the top of one of the most fun carnivals ever, drop a comment, or an e-mail and we will set you up. Late June, anyone?
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