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JFK Records Act Releases: A comparison with NARA 2016
In a recent series of posts here, I have been looking at the records released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the JFK Records Act. These are the JFK assassination records that were originally mandated to be … Continue reading
JFK Records Act Releases: Audit
This post is a continuation of my previous post on the JFKRA releases. It is more number checking, no comments here on the content of the releases. This is probably boring to most readers (if there are any), but it’s … Continue reading
Review of Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Robert Middlekauff has read deeply in the history of the American revolution and the early republic. Moreover, he is interested in more than just a simple narrative; he is interested in causes and motives, as he shows in chaps. 20 … Continue reading
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Book reviews coming
If you haven’t recently looked at Amazon’s book reviews, these have undergone a massive change. The reviews are still there, but greatly diminished in utility. Perhaps the main value of the old book review system was that it allowed you … Continue reading
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JFK Records Act Releases: 11-17 Update
[Corrected 1/19/2018] That was fast. NARA released another set of JFKRA documents on November 17. According to NARA’s press release, there 10744 documents in this set (144 previously withheld in full, 10600 withheld in part), all from the FBI. Once … Continue reading
The 2017 JFK Records Act releases at NARA: Q & A
After looking at Harold Weisberg’s archive last year, I became interested in the JFK assassination, a subject I had never really looked at before. The recent NARA release of documents under the JFK Records Act, which was supposed to be … Continue reading
Zotero to Endnote: part III
This is the latest update of a note I first posted four years ago. Below is a summary of what I’m trying to do, then the revised solution. I use both Zotero and Endnote to do bibliographies. References that I … Continue reading
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Welcome to Chi Nan, Fall 2017
Hi! The new semester is now into its second week and I’m a little bit behind on most of my stuff as usual. To the new students, Welcome! To the sophomores, juniors, and seniors, hope you had a good summer … Continue reading
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Capturing system command output in perl
Running system commands from inside a perl script is one of the nastiest of all perl headaches. I suffered grievously when trying to use this method with some pdf file addons, and have scars to show for it. Lately, having … Continue reading
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Welcome to Spring Semester!
Hello! Fall 2017 was a very quiet semester in the warren, hopefully there will be more coming up this spring. If you want to get in touch and you’re an NCNU student, NCNU’s Moodle site is probably the best way. … Continue reading
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