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…
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…
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…
“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…
“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…
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…
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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