Comments on: A Rose by Any Other Name

By: Society of (Mostly) Civil War Historians Part I « Bull Runnings

Society of (Mostly) Civil War Historians Part I « Bull Runnings — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:27:15 +0000

[...] more than a handful of similarly unlettered folks like me among the 200 or so in attendance (see here for my definition of a historian). I was a fish out of [...]

By: Mark Grimsley on the Impetus for the Advance on Manassas « Bull Runnings

Mark Grimsley on the Impetus for the Advance on Manassas « Bull Runnings — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:06:03 +0000

[...] by that rarest of birds in Civil War literature, an honest to God military historian – see here for what I mean by [...]

By: Dueling Blowhards « Bull Runnings

Dueling Blowhards « Bull Runnings — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:35:38 +0000

[...] for all the nice emails about my posts on historians and Civil War blogs. I appreciate them [...]

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:39:26 +0000

Yes, Don. I believe that makes you pre-historic. Ba-da-BING!

Thanks, folks – you’ve been a great audience. I’ll be here all week.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:07:12 +0000

Harry,

While I’m probably more of a hysterian myself, I’m glad to finally provide a working definition of historian that I am comfortable and can live with. It did draw one question, though — where does this leave all of the folks who completed undergrad studies in history? Are they (hmm, we) considered still embryonic and not yet anything, like lawyers before law school? “Pre-history” like pre-law and pre-med folks?

Maybe I answered my own question, I kind of like that….

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:59:18 +0000

Hey Rick, good to hear from you.

So far, Mannie’s second label seems fitting for everyone who has commented on this post…

Hope to see you soon – in the meantime, check back often!

By: Rick Allen

Rick Allen — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:54:33 +0000

Harry, a million ‘thank you’s’ for your comment on “an/a” historian. You know how prone I am to bouts of madness and nothing will set off the trigger like the term…” an Historian..”….drives me totally bonkers.

And I can live with your definition of ‘Historian’ too, but if Steve gets to be a ‘CW BS Artist’, I want to be a ‘Standup Philosopher.’

Btw, I like this site! Good job.

Rick Allen

By: Steve Basic

Steve Basic — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:59:21 +0000

I was gonna go with CW BS Artist, but I do come up with some valid points every now and then. :)

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:08:27 +0000

I’ll go with the latter, for both of us.

By: Mannie Gentile

Mannie Gentile — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:33:23 +0000

For the moment, I prefer to be called a hysterian, or perhaps, simply, a wiseacre.

This is subject to change.

Mannie