https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/mstoneman/activity/ Activity feed for Mark R. Stoneman. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:50:43 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 855a41ded886760e91f1c2294b23095c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1931030/ Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:45:51 +0000 0 a1f841ab82dc98bcd10384a933fac85a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1930675/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:48:37 +0000 0 7b8fd4002240e96e688432caf8883091 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901365/ Fri, 11 Oct 2024 01:48:13 +0000 0 00813dd6e2b74fa0ea7d4914d4983ae4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888754/ Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:16:12 +0000 0 4751705040a15006931ab75d4b3c635b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859426/ Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:50:52 +0000 0 c614b845cfe08b5f8a2bc467376b19ba https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1825662/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:50:13 +0000 0 c2eeb1ecbc558d61c3ece129016d1537 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824681/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 06:26:43 +0000 0 177b2884d3eb94150b3c41e1148ac5ac https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823773/ Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:44:10 +0000 0 a9b4b0b51c7f4b6d037c932ce3803b85 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823772/ Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:25:53 +0000 0 56d80f5d41035dc3d41d399903036fa7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794826/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:23:23 +0000 0 6d39fa928a2f350f2b3756b7354ec6b3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791888/ Mon, 29 Aug 2022 02:23:50 +0000 This article examines the mixture of hostile and amicable relations that Bavarian fighting men had with French civilians during the Franco-Prussian War, when civilians provided food, fodder and quarters to the invading armies and sometimes took up arms against them. Relying mainly on published personal narratives, this article looks at the…[Read more]

]]> 0 97047a96d757c3642f0a7f02bf1ab816 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791887/ Mon, 29 Aug 2022 02:23:38 +0000 This article examines the mixture of hostile and amicable relations that Bavarian fighting men had with French civilians during the Franco-Prussian War, when civilians provided food, fodder and quarters to the invading armies and sometimes took up arms against them. Relying mainly on published personal narratives, this article looks at the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2e57c941eb39711e3f78630628c7033 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791694/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 03:32:08 +0000 This article examines the mixture of hostile and amicable relations that Bavarian fighting men had with French civilians during the Franco-Prussian War, when civilians provided food, fodder and quarters to the invading armies and sometimes took up arms against them. Relying mainly on published personal narratives, this article looks at the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb3dc400b7931a8ec2e64cec3bfaad5e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791692/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 02:24:16 +0000 This chapter focuses on German soldiers and French civilians in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, using the example of the Bavarian contingent. It examines why soldiers sometimes departed from generally accepted standards in Europe about sparing civilians the effects of war as much as possible.

]]> 0 413249e3ddd3bb4de520fc9cd602f43f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791691/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 02:24:11 +0000 This chapter focuses on German soldiers and French civilians in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, using the example of the Bavarian contingent. It examines why soldiers sometimes departed from generally accepted standards in Europe about sparing civilians the effects of war as much as possible.

]]> 0 533acc2f817c2dc764fbbf929f86cd3f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791690/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 02:24:05 +0000 Far from detracting from the image emerging in the historiography of an up-to-date, national profession, the Wilhelmine officer corps’ showy appearance and ritualistic comportment underscore the great lengths to which the corps went to adjust to contemporaneous social, political, and cultural developments in the Kaiserreich.

]]> 0 234f37b37645776e443a6d25e622e980 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791689/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 02:24:03 +0000 This essay offers a revisionist interpretation of the Imperial German officer corps, whose members have long enjoyed a schizophrenic reputation in the historiography as either consummate military professionals or feudalistic representatives of a bygone political system. Using the career of Wilhelm Groener (1867-1939). it reexamines the…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbf5de9a9b5c6bc3d880c963237a47eb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791688/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 02:23:50 +0000 This essay offers a revisionist interpretation of the Imperial German officer corps, whose members have long enjoyed a schizophrenic reputation in the historiography as either consummate military professionals or feudalistic representatives of a bygone political system. Using the career of Wilhelm Groener (1867-1939). it reexamines the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c023e2786dc34b594e7ceae050e1ef07 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791687/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 02:23:38 +0000 This essay offers a revisionist interpretation of the Imperial German officer corps, whose members have long enjoyed a schizophrenic reputation in the historiography as either consummate military professionals or feudalistic representatives of a bygone political system. Using the career of Wilhelm Groener (1867-1939). it reexamines the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a92226a9381705bec7afefec3400d70b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791653/ Sat, 27 Aug 2022 07:16:50 +0000 This chapter focuses on German soldiers and French civilians in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71, using the example of the Bavarian contingent. It examines why soldiers sometimes departed from generally accepted standards in Europe about sparing civilians the effects of war as much as possible.

]]> 0 e031444b9798080e36f4b287564d934f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791652/ Sat, 27 Aug 2022 05:23:00 +0000 Far from detracting from the image emerging in the historiography of an up-to-date, national profession, the Wilhelmine officer corps’ showy appearance and ritualistic comportment underscore the great lengths to which the corps went to adjust to contemporaneous social, political, and cultural developments in the Kaiserreich.

]]> 0 6522d8c4bcb82b7b21000ca39372a26b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791650/ Sat, 27 Aug 2022 02:59:45 +0000 This essay offers a revisionist interpretation of the Imperial German officer corps, whose members long enjoyed a schizophrenic reputation in the historiography as either consummate military professionals or feudalistic representatives of a bygone political system. Using the career of Wilhelm Groener (1867-1939). it reexamines the relationship…[Read more]

]]> 0 2166e1305c4e2935e33fedff0131856b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791465/ Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:57:15 +0000 Biography of a Protestant pastor and general superintendent in early modern Germany, Cristoph Vischer (1520–98), and interpretation of his mirror for princes (Fürstenspiegel) about “How to Raise Young Princes and Gentlemen.”

]]> 0 6d9bed44e350f5c1d44137d1308daa44 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1790947/ Thu, 18 Aug 2022 23:35:57 +0000 This May 1st piece offers a brief look at some online Progressive Era sources relating to child labor and public knowledge of the issue. We published it on History of Knowledge to illustrate a possible blog post format.

]]> 0 ccb2ed3d18803a5022f78edfd0d34901 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1790493/ Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:17:26 +0000 In Part II of my survey of the blog ‘Migrant Knowledge,’ I turn to a rich set of posts that treat societal knowledge about migrants from the perspective of two elite groups, so to speak, the state and its agents, on the one hand, and scholars, here primarily historians, on the other hand. Two additional perspectives appear in these accounts: the…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b0544818e3403b4ffe24c693820627e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1790492/ Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:05:35 +0000 An introduction to the blog ‘Migrant Knowledge’ as an editorial project for the readers of ‘History of Knowledge.’ It concentrates on a rich and dynamic group of studies centering around young migrants and the historiographical problem of their agency. It also considers the topic of adult experts on these children.

]]> 0 32fe32b87903146a00e0f84ba01886bd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1771477/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:05:57 +0000 Review of a book that probes how soldiers and civilians on each side of the Rhine experienced the Franco-Prussian War. Using people whose practical circumstances changed during the course of hostilities in ways both foreseen and unforeseen by the laws and customs of war, the book asks how and to what extent such wartime experiences promoted…[Read more]

]]> 0 be0bb153fc93095645ddc7f5759e58ec https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1771338/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:43:10 +0000 This piece uses Shadi Bartsch’s five tenets for understanding knowledge and several previous posts on History of Knowledge to discuss what histories of knowledge are about.

]]> 0 4d3dedd0934da4325bc346dbb572719f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1771336/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:17:52 +0000 Personal reflections on historiographical publishing cultures in the United States and Germany by way of trying to understand some of the differing attitudes to blogging that we were encountering at the beginning of History of Knowledge.

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]]> 0 d71f675e07d6b7ce8c4f039fb9f86ad0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1770890/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:52:45 +0000 This dissertation analyzes the career and attitudes of Wilhelm Groener (1867-1939), whom it uses as a vehicle for understanding the Imperial German army officer corps and the assumptions that guided the General Staff war planning process that culminated in the Schlieffen Plan and the German invasion of Belgium and France in 1914.

]]> 0 efca2824a1295746b8b3d7e7b27b7b45 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1770877/ Mon, 07 Feb 2022 22:35:13 +0000 Photocopy of MA thesis in English with quotes from source material in German

]]> 0 91e5f594264de57b9ddc6faec6f8e2d5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1770857/ Mon, 07 Feb 2022 20:13:33 +0000 0 193eba4da531838a4475e62b94895c47 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1770855/ Mon, 07 Feb 2022 20:01:44 +0000 The authors reflect on their experiences as the founding editors of the History of Knowledge blog. Situating the project in its specific institutional, geographical, and historiographical contexts, they highlight its role in scholarly communication and research alongside journals and books in a research domain that is still young, especially when…[Read more]

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