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History and the Politics of Scholarly Collaboration, Part I: Or, Why Anthony...
Meet Anthony Grafton, the AHA's Jonathan Swift Have you followed American Historical Association president Anthony Grafton’s serial meditation on how graduate schools might respond to a bad academic...
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Mirror, Mirror On the Wall, Who Is The Smartest Historian of All?
I am currently operating about a month behind on much of my professional mail because of the job-switch thing. Therefore, it wasn’t until I was riding the train last week that I picked up on American...
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Writing By Hand: the Lost Art
Today the Tenured Radical is feeling like the Tenured Crank, and not just because of the summer cold that has taken up temporary residence between her vacationing ears. Over at HASTAC, where there are...
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We Built It: But Who Are “We,” White Man?
In case you have forgotten that marriage is only between a man and a woman, Laura Bowman accepts Bradley Thompson’s proposal on the GOP convention stage. Photo credit. Remember that old joke where the...
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Don’t Mourn, Organize!
These are the legendary last words of Joe Hill — except that they weren’t his last words. According to Peter Carlson’s Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood (New York: W.W. Norton: 1983)...
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Teaching At The Grass Roots: Registering Voters in North Carolina
Our southern correspondent, who some of you may know from my comments section as Urban Exile, (and others may know better as my sister) has volunteered to register voters in the state of North...
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Teachers Are Not Soldiers
“Yer paper’s late, dude!” In only a matter of a few decades, the National Rifle Association has managed to persuade the American policy apparatus that the only answer to rampant gun violence is for...
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There’s Nothing That Says I Haven’t Got A Plan….
Just keep saying: Mitt Romney would have been worse, Mitt Romney would have been worse… …Like President Obama’s new College Affordability Plan. (For intelligent and thoughtful responses to this...
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And The Dead (Fields of History) Shall Rise Up
Following on the public hissies being thrown about the demise of The New Republic, there is apparently another cause for concern about the death of intellectual life as we know it: the history of the...
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The Mysteries of Facebook: Part II
Last night I broke my only New Year’s Resolution: don’t argue, or provoke others to argument, on social media. What I am talking about is what I call “the cycle.” This is a mental feedback loop of...
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