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The big reveal! Historiann has a face for C-SPAN 3.
You can see me lecturing to my HIST 358: American Women’s History to 1800 students from this semester on the politics of early American women’s underwear (srsly!) on C-SPAN 3, American History TV,...
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Multi-media Weekend Round-up: The Holly and the Ivy and the Gunsmoke edition
Well, friends, la famille Historiann has had a very good year and we have a lot to be grateful for, the first thing being that none of us was injured or killed by firearms. I hope that all of you are...
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Historiann, archived
Hi, friends! I hope you’re enjoying a lovely holiday and/or winter vacation. Several of you have e-mailed me or left questions in the comments here on the blog about whether the lecture I recorded...
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2012: the Year of the Asshole?
Some of you have probably heard of Geoffrey Nunberg’s Ascent of the A-word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years (2012) because of his platform as the resident linguist for NPR’s Fresh Air. A few weeks...
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Oxycodone addict and member of notoriously drunken rich clan with fortune...
Alcohol is legal; smashing up bars is not. I can’t make this stuff up. Retired Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy is taking aim at what he sees as knee-jerk support for marijuana legalization...
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DVR alert: Historiann in re-runs this weekend on C-SPAN 3.
I’ve been informed that my lecture on stays, material culture, and early American women’s history will air again this weekend on C-SPAN 3: Saturday at 11:20 a.m., Sunday at 6:20 a.m. (for the...
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At last! Mansplanations from an angry C-SPAN 3 viewer.
Drat! My nefarious radical plot to start a “sex week” at Baa Ram U. has been discovered. Behold! A viewer named Bruce, who apparently writes like a blog SPAMbot, has caught me out: I heard your...
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Intimate body care: never a highly paid occupation
NPR featured a story tonight about how poorly compensated home health care work is. Currently, they are not entitled either to the minimum wage nor to overtime pay. Most make between $8-10/hr., while...
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Life, death, and early America
Richard III’s skeleton, showing a massive skull fracture and evidence of corpse desecration. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I find the story about the discovery and identification of Richard...
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Defending the liberal arts against the ignorance caucus
Many of you probably heard about North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory’s attack on liberal arts education on the Bill Bennett Old-Timey 180-Minute Hate Radio Program. He argued that the state should...
View ArticleOscar d00dly b00bfest best for lying down, avoiding
We had a much-needed little Front Range snowstorm yesterday. It was so peaceful and quiet–Sundays are usually pretty quiet days in Potterville, but with the snow swallowing all outdoor sounds, it was...
View ArticleNew research on Nazi slave labor camps shocks even Holocaust scholars
This is certainly shocking to me as well. From the New York Times article: [R]esearchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from...
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Is the ‘stache back?
Mustaches: they’ve been on my mind lately because of all of the interest in Thomas Friedmans’ “The Mustache of Understanding” mooky MOOC-fest earlier this week. But I’ve also been seeing them riding...
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CPP = William Howard Taft?
Comrade PhysioProffe‘s post last week on Thomas Friedman’s puffery of MOOCs calls out MOOCs as a “class warfare scam,” and makes an interesting comparison of mass-produced MOOC education to...
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Wednesday round-up: What I saw at the OAH
Attending a big conference like the Organization of American Historians is fun, especially when it’s in an pleasant place like San Francisco in the spring in mid-April. What I do is so marginal to the...
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Dear Elle Magazine,
In an article praising Kim Gordon’s feminist credentials and history of helping other feminist musicians, don’t you think that you could have run a photo of her wearing something on the bottom? The...
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Monday round-up: endless semester edition
You’ve heard of The Endless Summer? It sure seems to me like this is the Endless Semester. Maybe it’s all of the snow and slush in April, but more than any other spring semester in recent memory,...
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A Modest Proposal: the Defense of Motherhood Act
Here’s an excellent suggestion from University of Wisconsin law proffie R. Alta Charo: The Defense of Motherhood Act! Coming soon to a state legislature near you, if you decide to make it happen:...
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Nazi pilots on crystal meth!
Actual Nazi pilot Erich Alfred Hartmann (1922-93), courtesy of Fuck Yeah History Crushes No, this is not a gay porn DVD title–amazingly enough, that’s a true headline! Check out this article from Der...
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And speaking of poor judgment on the world wide non peer-reviewed internets. . .
Do you feel pretty? Well, do ya, punk? Via Echidne originally, I give you Geoffrey Miller, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico, who tweeted before thinking twice, or even...
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