This past weekend, historians of all stripes converged on New York City for the American Historical Association annual meeting. As predicted,…
Every year between Christmas and New Year’s, many young historians (and some older ones) undergo a ritual of sorts. It…
Let’s imagine that you wake up one morning after many years of writing and speaking and teaching in your academic…
As I turned off the highway and onto the county road, I made the call. My husband answered. “I’m going…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that historians are not particularly fashion-forward. The sartorial stereotypes persist: the tweed jacket with…