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
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…
Gender and History
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…
Personal Accounts and Identity
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…
Foucault…
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…
Of Cats and Men
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…
Continued Experience
“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…
History and the Web
“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…
Storytelling Challenges
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…
History, Agendas, and Microhistory
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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