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A Creative Commons License for USIH Content

Like most bloggers, those of us who write and edit USIH are excited when people reproduce our work in other venues. But we were disturbed to discover recently that a blogger (who shall remain nameless) was republishing whole USIH posts under his own name.  Dealing with this unfortunate circumstance led to a discussion among the USIH bloggers about rights and licensing of USIH Blog content. After some discussion among the bloggers and the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s Publications Committee, which is responsible for this blog, we have come up with the following policy: Starting on Tuesday, August 7, 2012, Read more