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Hooked on history: the Missouri Crisis, San Juan Hill, and my grandparents’ attic
Guest post by John R. Van Atta
Sev
eral years ago, as I wandered around the book exhibit at a meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Houston, Johns Hopkins University Press’s Witness to History series caught my eye. After the meeting, acting on senior history editor Bob Brugger’s encouragement, I worked up a proposal for a volume on the Missouri Crisis, a subject that we thought could stand a little more consideration than recent literature had given it. The proposal eventually won approval from JHUP’s editorial board, and that was about all there was to it. Wolf by the Ears: The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821 was published in May.
In years past, historians have paid more attention to the internal political dynamics of the Missouri controversy—the strategies within the debate itself, the implications for party development, the mechanics of Congressional deal making, and so on—than to the external social, cultural, and…
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Young Poet
flipping through the digital
pages of a website dedicated
to poetry, I see a gem that
thoroughly catches my eye:
a “young” poet is someone
who is short of 50 years old
it took me with a start since
at 49 I don’t consider myself
to be “young” and I don’t
include myself in the “aged”
still, I wonder, how can I
be considered “young” as
if I’m a junior poet, an
inexperienced individual
I’ve seen, done, lived,
the whole nine yards but
editors will apparently see
me as a “young” poet
imagine that – me…young
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