Thursday, January 15, 2015

TWO HISTORIANS FIGHT BACK

 CHALLENGES TO THE CURRENT WATERING DOWN 

The time has come "to consider the human beings that were these cadavers with respect, to not let them disappear again — which means looking at who they were and what they did."

-- Michèle Audin, Bloody Week, p.9

Discussion at a progressive bookstore on May 23 (2024), a date chosen to call up Bloody Week (May 22-28, 1871) in a neighborhood where desperate fighting took place.


Bloody Week (2021)
Historians against the Commune (2024)

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They are outside the expected circuit.
Michèle Audin is a mathemetician,
Emmanuel Brandely a high school teacher. 

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