Author Archives: Robert

ARRB Electronic Records at NARA

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Robert

In all the news coverage about the release of documents under the JFK Records Act, one release has attracted almost no attention. As the NARA press release on the October 26 release noted (here), the electronic records of the Assassination … Continue reading →

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Review of Reporting the Chinese Revolution: The Letters of Rayna Prohme

Posted on December 9, 2017 by Robert

Letters from a fading past This book consists of a narrative by two editors, Baruch Hirson and Arthur Knodel, written around a few dozen letters by Rayna Prohme. Rayna was an American who, together with her husband Bill Prohme, ran … Continue reading →

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An index to Hsiao-hsueh k’ao

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Robert

Today I’m posting another recycled paper, an index to a book called 小學考 (Hsiao-hsueh k’ao, pinyin Xiaoxue kao). The link to download the index is here. I compiled this index in June 1991, when I was still a graduate student. … Continue reading →

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How to select/display all rows with duplicate values in MySQL

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Robert

(This should be a fub, but the description is too long.) One of the most frequent uses of database tables is to identify duplicate values in your data. Assume you have a table with a list of names, and you … Continue reading →

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Review of Ronald Radosh, Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Robert

Blacklist back-story Author Ronald Radosh has a back story himself, for those interested: once a Communist Party member himself, he quit, moved to the new “left”, then moved to the new “right” in the 1980s. I knew of him because … Continue reading →

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JFK Records Act Releases: A comparison with NARA 2016

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Robert

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 →

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JFK Records Act Releases: Audit

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Robert

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 →

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Review of Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Robert

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

Posted on November 22, 2017 by Robert

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

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Robert

[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 →

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