I read two useful books for my topic this week, which have helped me start to get a handle on where my question fits into larger happenings. First I read David Blight’s Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American … Continue reading
Inspired by an exercise in Dr. Agmon’s class, I started thinking about my topic temporally. The question below is, of course, simply the first attempt at formulating my project—I anticipate changes as I delve further into my research. How did … Continue reading
I have taken the first step towards my project and actually procured an advisor! Dr. Quigley, with whom I am also working for the Graduate Assistantship, will be advising me throughout my research process. I met with him briefly to … Continue reading
It’s a new semester and with one under our belt, it looks like this time we’ve been thrown right into the deep end! I met with Dr. Quigley, Dr. Thorp, and Dr. Wallenstein to discuss my possible avenues of research. … Continue reading
This week we took an interesting look at global history. Global history, as it sounds, is large in scope, encompassing the whole history of humanity. The book we read was a collaboration between a father and son, William H. McNeill … Continue reading
After our two week blogging holiday, I’m back! And this time things are going to get deep. As in, deep history. Deep history is the study of the far past, what many would call “prehistory.” As Daniel Lord Smail argues … Continue reading
Geoff Eley’s A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society neatly mirrors the historiographical trends we have studied so far this year. Using his own academic career as a basis for his investigation of the history profession’s … Continue reading
I feel like I have finally read the essay that started it all. Since I started grad school, it has been literally impossible to avoid the influence of gender on historical studies. Many of the books we have read deal … Continue reading
I know what I want to address in this blog post, but I’m having a very hard time articulating it. So bear with me and I will work through my initial thought processes and try to come up with a … Continue reading
Just like every week, doing the readings for class this time involved a voyage of discovery. First I was reading about cats being slaughtered by jovial eighteenth century printers; next it was cockfights in 1950s Bali. By the time I … Continue reading