Commentary Accessibility and the Post-Pandemic Conference 20 Jul 202220 Jul 2022 It’s July, which means that academic conferences are in full swing—and for the first time in three years, largely happening as in-person events. My home organization, SHEAR, meets this weekend…
Commentary My Fresh Take on the Declaration 4 Jul 20184 Jul 2018 Last year, the Declaration Resources Project at Harvard published a feature with twenty-four historians re-reading the Dunlap broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence and then offering brief remarks in…
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writing Novelty and Historical Arguments 10 Aug 2017 I’ve spent much of this summer working on revising my book manuscript based on readers’ reports (huzzah!), which has meant lots of editing, re-reading, new reading to catch up on…
Commentary This is just like that time when… 26 Jun 2017 Like many historians, I awoke this morning and recoiled when I opened Twitter and stumbled into an New York Times op-ed piece entitled, "Historians Shouldn't Be Pundits." The author, a historian at…
HIST 120… Fall 2017 Book Orders 15 May 201715 May 2017 Below are the required texts for my courses for the upcoming semester. For students, please note that these texts will be on reserve at Whittemore Library, and that I do…
Uncategorized HSTA 306: Historiography of a Field 10 Apr 201710 Apr 2017 As part of our discussions this semester, we have spent significant time discussing the evolution of the field of the history of the early American republic. Over time in every…
HSTA 306… HSTA 306: Response to Baptist 31 Mar 2017 For historians, a book review is an opportunity both to assess the quality of a historical work and to place the author’s argument in conversation with other scholarship. At its…
Commentary On the Start of a New Semester 16 Jan 2017 Tomorrow is the first day of classes at my university. Last Friday, the campus was almost eerily quiet, but by the time I arrive at my office in the morning,…
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