From An Historian’s Notebook: Shibbolethics
And ever since then, a shibboleth is a word that must be pronounced to demonstrate the proper belonging to a community. Without having the proper word at your disposal, you could easily come to a sticky end.
From An Historian’s Notebook: How to Write a Folk Song
This would have made no difference to Paul Robeson, when he chose to sing the song. He was comfortable with the work of Dvořák; he sang a song from the 1848 Revolution in Czech by Smetana; and he said of himself that he could sing in twenty-five languages. As an internationalist and a communist, the purpose of his work was to emphasise what was common to the human condition.
From an Historian’s Notebooks: The Iron Rules of History
Benjamin Zachariah is a historian and a professor of history. He will attempt to break down the twelve post-colonial theses of history for the readers of thespaceink web magazine.