Archive for August, 2010
Make sure you’ve had your tetanus shot, and other important things I learned as an archives intern
Hours of my life were spent removing the various metals used to hold documents together; I especially liked finding actual nails, like these, inside the accounting files. For six weeks this summer, I worked as an intern in the archives department of the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in downtown Kennesaw, Georgia. [...]
August 17th, 2010More on the unsolvable morality of the atomic bomb
Remnants of a city, Hiroshima, August 1945 With the recent anniversaries of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there has been the inevitable stirring and rehashing of old debates. August 6 and August 9 (incidentally, the birthdays of my brothers Neil and Carl, respectively) marked military action of unprecedented extremity, and [...]
August 16th, 2010