Oliver Sacks is dying an optimist
A great public intellectual writes about his robust good spirits in the face of a terminal diagnosis: Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of...
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Everything changes, part I
Flavia’s new tat So many European medievalists and early modernists have Latin tattoos that I’m now declaring that this is A Thing. (I know: I’m probably the last to notice!) First, we have the example...
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Move over freshman fifteen: make (lots of) room for the sabbatical ten.
A Narcisco Rodriguez dress that looks surprisingly comfortable. I’ve been talking with a number of the other long-term fellows about the amazing fact that many of us have managed to gain weight while...
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No desk? No problem!
All the best history is written from a reclining position. Apparently, there are no desks in the standard rooms at the conference hotel used by the annual meeting of the Organization of American...
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Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present, and age as a category of...
Is age the next new category of analysis in history? I think it might be, and not just because I’m one of the contributing authors. From an email from co-editor Nicholas L. Syrett I received this...
View ArticleYour weekend-starts-now laugh of the day
Go check out this Amazon review of Charles Francis Adams’s Three Episodes of Massachusetts History (BiblioLife, 2009)–click and scroll down to Editorial Reviews towards the bottom of the page (h/t...
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Cause, or effect? Plus a Sunday Morning Medicine signal boost, and...
Not my typical morning run. On days when I haul my butt out of bed at 5 a.m. and get out for an early morning run, I have lots of energy the rest of the day and can even stay up a little longer in the...
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Beyond the Binary: Trans* History in Early America
Fall 2014 special issue Rachel Hope Cleves has a detailed and interesting report on a panel she convened earlier this month at the Annual Meeting of the American HIstorical Association in New York City...
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The Vagina Dentatalogues
Just go read Elizabeth Reis on the Mount Holyoke College non-production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues at Nursing Clio: Intersex activists have coined the insightful slogan, “No Body is...
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Bryn Mawr “affirms. . . institutional identity as a women’s college” and the...
From an email I received from the Chair of the Board of Trustees at Bryn Mawr College about the “recommendation from a Board working group that was created at the September 2014 Board meeting to...
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Oliver Sacks is dying an optimist
A great public intellectual writes about his robust good spirits in the face of a terminal diagnosis: Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of...
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Everything changes, part I
Flavia’s new tat So many European medievalists and early modernists have Latin tattoos that I’m now declaring that this is A Thing. (I know: I’m probably the last to notice!) First, we have the example...
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Caitlyn Jenner portrait “a picture from the past rather than the present.”
One of the things about L.A. I’m really going to miss is reading the shrunken, vestigial, adware-addled Denver Post instead of the rich and lively LA Times, and one of the writers I’ll miss most is art...
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Was the American Revolution a mistake? Reflections from the true North strong...
Greetings from Cap Diamant! While I was buying a ticket Saturday afternoon to tour the archaeological dig of Chateau St. Louis, the remains of the original fort and governors’ houses in Québec City, I...
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Crossing over, part III: The uses and limits of literary models
Mary with Laura holding Susan. Illustration by Garth Williams, Little House in the Big Woods, 1932 Today’s post is an unanticipated part III in my series Crossing Over, on writing and publishing an...
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Abortion, “privacy,” and those Planned Parenthood videos
Katha Pollitt has some ideas for reclaiming the moral high ground on abortion rights. I agree with her that abortion needs to be seen more visibly as a part of women’s health care. We all know women...
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Bloody, bloody Donald Trump: Sex segregation, the corrosive power of...
Laura Bennett analyzes Donald Trump’s comments on Megyn Kelly’s questions in last week’s Republican debate in Slate today. To review: Trump complained about the question she asked him regarding his...
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Sexuality frightens, confuses school district
This is a stupid story, but there’s an interesting nugget buried in the explanation for how and why a Young Adult author was chased off the internets for standing up for reality-based high school sex...
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Historiann on Who Do You Think You Are
UPDATE, 8/31/15 11:50 a.m. Well, that was fast. The first video was terminated! I’ll let you know if I find another copy somewhere, but if you go to the Who Do You Think You Are schedule, you’ll see...
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The author’s corner: Selbstmörder und freiheit edition
University of Chicago Press, 2015 Don’t miss John Fea’s interview of Terri L. Snyder about her brand-new book, The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America (University of Chicago...
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