Claire G.

Do animals have agency? This is the question being asked this week; whether animals can truly be historical actors, or if they they better assessed…

[Author’s note: I am not feeling well tonight. I am writing a short post with the intent to edit it tomorrow after a long sleep.]…

After some difficulty in determining what exactly to write about tonight after having read two of Joan Scott’s articles and one analysis of her work,…

Both of our readings for this week, “Landscape for a Good Woman” and “A Crooked Line,” use an autobiographical framework to situate the reader in…

This [transformation of the critique] entails an obvious consequence: that criticism is no longer going to be practiced in the search for formal structures with…

 For historians encountering a past society through the medium of documentary sources there is – or ought to be – the same sense of ‘culture…

The radical politics of the sixties were inseparable from the historiographical story. The breakthrough to social history was unimaginable without the sense of political possibility…

By this point, we’ve all accepted, or at least heavily considered, the idea that there is no such thing as objectivity and that what some…

What effect is widespread internet use having on the dissemination and acquisition of information? How do we delineate “facts” from lies or rumors if information…

Here is a collection of somewhat disjointed thoughts and questions related to two of this week’s readings. Iggers: This reading is primarily concerned with the…