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The Romance of the Pony Express
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 to highlight a little postal history, I say. The Pony Express is part of America’s romantic imagination of itself, with the image of young riders…
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A Philosophy of Citation?
Is there such a thing as a philosophy of citation? I offer some thoughts as I prepare for the topic in my methods course.
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A Second Try for Commonplace Books
After last semester’s introduction of a commonplace book assignment, it’s time for some revisions to improve the project.
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Re-Post: Watching History Unfold in Real Time
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 passed ten. I thought of it this morning on the 13th anniversary, and it seems even more true now. My freshmen were mostly born in…
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Commonplace Book Assignment
In the interest of sharing, an assignment I developed this term for a US history survey that asks students to create commonplace books.
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A Contrarian Take on the Mystery of the Missing Period
Is there a typo in the Declaration? Maybe, but the New York Times is asking the wrong question.
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Is Blogging Scholarship? and Other Questions
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). Featuring several prominent blogger-historians such as John Fea, Ann Little (aka Historiann), Ben Alpers of USIH Blog, Jeff Pasley of Common-place, Mike O’Malley (The Aporetic),…
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Joseph M. Adelman 