This past weekend’s football frenzy—the NFL playoffs (huzzah for the Patriots!) and the college football championship game (congratulations to THE…
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…