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By: Investigations of a Dog » 14th Military History Carnival

Investigations of a Dog » 14th Military History Carnival — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:07:40 +0000

[...] Today is also the day that Bloggers Unite encourages bloggers to write about human rights (hat tip: Mark Stoneman). I might post something on that theme later today if I have time (and I probably won’t have [...]

By: Mark Stoneman

Mark Stoneman — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:11:39 +0000

Here’s the contents of the issue Kevin pointed out: http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/hrights/index.html

I should have looked it up earlier, but I was crazy busy. Thanks Kevin!

By: Radovan Karadzic is History « Clio and Me

Radovan Karadzic is History « Clio and Me — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:59:57 +0000

[...] of the Cold War. So far I’ve only managed a few words in the context of a thematic lecture on human rights. Sometimes it also comes up in a followup discussion to my lecture on war and society, because the [...]

By: Why I like the Declaration of Independence « Clio and Me

Why I like the Declaration of Independence « Clio and Me — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:33:31 +0000

[...] post: Human Rights in the History Survey Filed under: holidays, human rights, teaching | Tags: absolutism, [...]

By: Kevin Levin

Kevin Levin — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:17:23 +0000

The latest issue of the OAH’s Magazine of History is devoted to Human Rights. I don’t know if you are familiar with it, but it includes readable and concise essays on various topics as well as lesson plans. Good luck.

By: Dave Donelson

Dave Donelson — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:44:44 +0000

An interesting approach. I wish I’d been exposed to that kind of thinking when I was in school.

By: cooper

cooper — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:48:12 +0000

The topic is huge, but it sounds to me like a required course – wouldn’t it be grand to scale something like this down and require it nationally at the secondary level.

Great post, as was your other one on “Responsibility to protect – enjoyed reading them both.

By: Mark Stoneman

Mark Stoneman — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:25:32 +0000

@ Kevin, @ Nards: Thank you.

@ Steve: What matters from my point of view as a historian is less what was in the Bible and more how people’s actions were informed by their faith. That’s too big a topic for here, but natural law is relevant in this context. Seventeenth-century iterations of natural law were certainly a part of the Enlightenment’s prehistory. So was the religious persecution of that time.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:42:23 +0000

Interesting though, that if you go a long way further back than the Enlightenmernt, you can come across (in the Bible) “A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man has no such knowledge”.

By: Nards

Nards — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:24:55 +0000

Great, great post! BTW, I favor the thematic approach over chronological…hands down! – Nards