Commentary… The Romance of the Pony Express 14 Apr 2015 I woke up this morning to several notifications from friends that today's Google Doodle celebrates the 155th anniversary of the first delivery to California by the Pony Express. It's always great…
Professional My Social Media Story, Part 2 11 Mar 201511 Mar 2015 In Part 1 of this essay, I discussed why I engage in social media as a scholar and academic. Here I'd like to pick up that story by explaining what…
Professional My Social Media Story, Part 1 10 Mar 201511 Mar 2015 This week I gave a talk on campus about "Online Engagement and New Audiences for Scholarship" at a faculty colloquium. It was a chance for me to think through in a…
HIST 250… A Philosophy of Citation? 24 Feb 2015 This semester I'm teaching the department's sophomore-level research methods course, and it's been quite an education for me. Working through a course like this where I work with students explicitly…
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Teaching A Second Try for Commonplace Books 19 Jan 2015 Last semester I debuted an assignment in my introductory U.S. history survey course (the first half, up to 1877), in which students were required to make a commonplace book using quotations…
Memory Re-Post: Watching History Unfold in Real Time 11 Sep 201411 Sep 2014 Two years ago on the anniversary of 9/11, I wrote a post for the Publick Occurrences blog about the changes in public commemoration and memory as the number of anniversaries…
Teaching Commonplace Book Assignment 4 Sep 20144 Sep 2014 A few weeks ago on Twitter I mentioned I was working on a new assignment for my US History survey (titled at Framingham State "United States History to Reconstruction"). In the interest…
Uncategorized A Contrarian Take on the Mystery of the Missing Period 3 Jul 20143 Jul 2014 Last night the New York Times ran a piece on a mystery of punctuation in the Declaration of Independence (in classic NYT style, the headline reads "A Period is Questioned" ... cute). According…
Uncategorized Is Blogging Scholarship? and Other Questions 14 Apr 2014 I wasn't able to attend this weekend's OAH conference in Atlanta, but followed several panels with interest, in particular the session on blogging and scholarship (marooned, sadly, to Sunday morning).…
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