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Human Exceptionalism

Human Exceptionalism

November 30, 2014
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Brett Walker argues that humans should rejoin the animal kingdom, or at least admit that they could never leave a group with which they belong,…

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Blogging Again with Deep History

Blogging Again with Deep History

November 16, 2014
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Interdisciplinary History Where in the world do you begin a blogpost about Daniel Lord Smail’s Deep History and the Brain? So many thoughts, tangents, and…

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Gender and History

Gender and History

October 18, 2014
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Joan W. Scott introduced gender as a means to add depth and deeper meaning to history. While she was not the first person to use…

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Personal Accounts and Identity

Personal Accounts and Identity

October 13, 2014
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In Landscape of a Good Woman, Steedman gives us a personal view of her mother and her own relationship with her mother. The tension that…

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Foucault...

Foucault…

October 6, 2014
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Thinking about Foucault… Just when you thought you had started to figure things out along come Foucault and changes everything…again! Where to begin though? I…

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Of Cats and Men

Of Cats and Men

September 27, 2014
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As disturbing and horrific as the 1730’s tale of the Paris cat massacre was it highlights a complex mission of the historian – to look…

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Continued Experience

Continued Experience

September 21, 2014
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“Not a thing but a continued experience” E.P. Thompson was speaking of class in his foreword when he wrote the above quote. I believe the…

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History and the Web

History and the Web

September 13, 2014
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“It Isn’t Writing, It’s Only Typing” Truman Capote’s slam of Kerouac’s writing sums how I have felt about blogging in the past. Prior to this…

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Storytelling Challenges

Storytelling Challenges

September 6, 2014
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Wow! I just finished listening to, and reading along with, William Cronon’s address to the American Historical Association and I am thrilled I took the…

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History, Agendas, and Microhistory

History, Agendas, and Microhistory

August 30, 2014
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One of the things that I found bothersome about the readings was the fact that some historians have interpreted history to serve a predefined purpose….

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