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Scholarly Editing
Amy E. Earhart
As a subject specialist in African American literature and a digital humanist, I am dismayed by the dearth of scholarly edited, digitized contemporary African American literary texts. Even extremely visible figures are not well represented by digital scholarly materials, a fact not fully excused by the difficulties of digitizing post-1923 authors due to copyright restrictions. For example, Alex Haley, who brought African American history to the larger American public through Roots, has no scholarly digital site dedicated to his work, with his main digital representation resting with the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation website, which focuses on African American genealogy, and the Alex Haley Tribute Site, a fan site that compiles portions of Haley's works.[1] Of course, Haley's case might be exacerbated due to accusations of plagiarism leveled against Roots; both Margaret Walker and Harold Courlander brought lawsuits against Haley claiming that he had plagiarized their work. Courlander's 1978 suit was successful and proved that eighty-one passages from Roots were copied from Courlander's 1967 book, The African, which subsequently led to decreased scholarly interest in Haley.[2] Malcolm X's work is also largely undocumented, though n
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The 28th of June 1919 is one of the very few historical dates I never forget. One hundred years ago today, the victors and vanquished of “the war to end all wars” gathered in Paris to sign the treaty that brought the Great War officially to an end – the Treaty of Versailles. On the same day, in a small town in the north of Scotland, my grandmother gave birth to her youngest son, my father, conceived while her husband was home on leave from that war. Twenty years later, the world would be plunged into another devastating war, and my father would spend six years of his youth fighting in it.
The generally accepted view is that the harsh terms meted out to Germany in the Treaty contributed to its economic collapse, creating the conditions in which Hitler and the Nazis rose to power, and thus were a major contributory cause of the Second World War. In this book, Margaret MacMillan looks in depth at how the Treaty was formulated and argues that, flawed though some of its terms were, the peacemakers did as well as they could in fairly impossible circumstances. She goes further, arguing that the reparations demanded from Germany were not as punitive as previous historians have suggested, and can’t be seen as having led directly to WW2.
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