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		<title>The Tennessee Tea Party and Slavery in Textbooks: An Example of Lazy Journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark R. Cheathem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a local Nashville paper pointed out, the HuffPo article on the Tennessee Tea party&#8217;s criticism of the discussion of slavery in school textbooks is a year old. I even wrote about it last January. The idea that textbooks shouldn&#8217;t discuss historical reality remains absurd, but I don&#8217;t understand why HuffPo and other news outlets only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcheathem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14751167&amp;post=1641&amp;subd=mcheathem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Who Wanted to Kill Andrew Jackson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark R. Cheathem</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Wilkes Booth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Junius Brutus Booth Sr.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Jackson often elicited strong, violent emotions. During his presidency, one man tried to assault him, and another tried to shoot him. What you may not realize is that John Wilkes Booth&#8217;s father, Junius Brutus Booth, threatened to kill President Andrew Jackson three decades before the younger Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on that fateful Good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcheathem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14751167&amp;post=1528&amp;subd=mcheathem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brief Review of Kathryn Olmsted, Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark R. Cheathem</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracy theories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Olmsted]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kathryn Olmsted&#8217;s Real Enemies is an excellent survey of conspiracy theories in the 20th-century United States. A history professor at UC-Davis, Olmsted makes three arguments. First, the U.S. government perpetrated conspiracies against American citizens in response to alleged anti-government conspiracies. In response, Americans constructed alternative conspiracy theories to explain the conspiracy theories that the government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcheathem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14751167&amp;post=1621&amp;subd=mcheathem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brief Review of David Aaronovitch, Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History</title>
		<link>http://mcheathem.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/brief-review-of-david-aaronovitch-voodoo-histories-the-role-of-the-conspiracy-theory-in-shaping-modern-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark R. Cheathem</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Aaronovitch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of overviews of modern conspiracy thinking. David Aaronovitch&#8217;s Voodoo Histories offers the perspective of a British journalist and writer. He looks at many of the traditional conspiracy theories prevalent in U.S. society, including the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Communism, and JFK. The value of Aaronovitch&#8217;s work, I think, is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcheathem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14751167&amp;post=1614&amp;subd=mcheathem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AHA 2012: Where Two or Three Are Gathered Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark R. Cheathem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Historical Association]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s AHA was the best I&#8217;ve ever attended, primarily because it&#8217;s the first I&#8217;ve attended without interviewing for a job but also because of the great weather. Our panel went well, despite only eleven people in the audience. (One member of our audience, Nick Cox, blogged about our panel.) Natalie and Ken gave great papers. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcheathem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14751167&amp;post=1602&amp;subd=mcheathem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Does a History Course on Conspiracy Theories Look Like?</title>
		<link>http://mcheathem.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/what-does-a-history-course-on-conspiracy-theories-look-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark R. Cheathem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracy theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracy thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As far as I know, I am one of only four history professors in the U.S. to offer a course on conspiracy theories. Kathy Olmsted, Robert Goldberg, and Jeff Pasley are the other three I know of. Pasley even has a website devoted to his course. (Update: Sara Morris alerted me to Jonathan Earle&#8216;s course on the history of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcheathem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14751167&amp;post=1591&amp;subd=mcheathem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AHA 2012: Bracing for the Windy City</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark R. Cheathem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Historical Association]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had two occasions to visit Chicago, and both came in the winter. It&#8217;s only appropriate, then, that the third time will be for this year&#8217;s AHA. Maybe someday, I&#8217;ll have the opportunity to travel to the Windy City when it isn&#8217;t so cold and . . . windy. I&#8217;ll be back to regular posting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcheathem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14751167&amp;post=1587&amp;subd=mcheathem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interested in Writing a Guest Post for a History Blog?</title>
		<link>http://mcheathem.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/interested-in-writing-a-guest-post-for-a-history-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark R. Cheathem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are an Early Republic historian who has considered writing for a blog but hasn&#8217;t taken the leap, I would like to offer you the opportunity to guest blog for Jacksonian America. Let me know, and we&#8217;ll work out the details. Have a good holiday break, and I&#8217;ll see you in 2012.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcheathem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14751167&amp;post=1579&amp;subd=mcheathem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Readings, 2011 Edition: Conspiracy and Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark R. Cheathem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracy theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve presented myself with quite the hefty reading list for the holiday break. Most of these books are either ones I&#8217;ve assigned for Spring 2012 courses or ones that are helping me prepare historical background for those courses. The exception is Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War, by James [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcheathem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14751167&amp;post=1583&amp;subd=mcheathem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patriarchy and Masculinity in Antebellum America: Andrew Jackson and His Male Wards</title>
		<link>http://mcheathem.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/patriarchy-and-masculinity-in-antebellum-america-andrew-jackson-and-his-male-wards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark R. Cheathem</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Jackson Donelson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve done for papers at the 2011 SHEAR and 2011 SHA conferences, I am posting ahead of time the paper I will be giving in Chicago at the American Historical Association annual meeting. This paper, which examines patriarchy and masculinity in Jackson&#8217;s advice to his male wards, is in many ways a continuation of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcheathem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14751167&amp;post=1574&amp;subd=mcheathem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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