Founder Wales, a closeted homosexual and hot - dog freak, according to his user - edited bio on the site, also hosted a symposium of amateur historians at the New School in New York on Saturday. (slaw.ca)
Ferguson finds that turning Lincoln into a monster is almost as common as making him a saint; in Richmond he also attends a conference of academics and amateur historians who «really really hate Abraham Lincoln,» and for whom the Civil War still rages, rhetorically, on. (firstthings.com)
It's quite fun - I hope less in a mean - spirited way than in a civicly - minded intellectual way - to see Judge Posner ridicule Justice Scalia's performances as amateur historian. (wac6.com)