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…
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…
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,…
Commentary… Focusing While Commuting 23 Jun 201623 Jun 2016 As an early Americanist, the Omohundro Institute's annual conference is always high on my list of events to attend each summer (and more so now that I work for the…
Commentary Who Decides Elections? 8 Jun 2016 As just about everyone is aware, there was a major kerfuffle this week about the Associated Press and its call on Monday that Hillary Clinton had amassed the requisite number…
Commentary… Public Education and Private Access 12 May 2016 On Monday of this week I found out that I'm going to need to change many of the research assignments I use in my courses-. For years, the Boston Public Library has provided…
Commentary… What If My Voice Doesn’t Matter? 26 Feb 201625 Feb 2016 This week at my university, faculty across campus have been conducting a teach-in relating our subjects to the Black Lives Matter movement as a way to facilitate discussion and conversation…
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…
Joseph M. Adelman 