Blog 6 - Historiann

AHA blogging round-up: how will we keep them down on the ranch, now that they’ve seen NYC?

In case you missed it, Hotshot Harry checked in with us last night from the AHA with his second report. Meanwhile, there are some other folks blogging the conference–some of the most interesting […]

Ed(itor) Linenthal dishes on the details of the Journal of American History

Edward Linenthal, the editor of the Journal of American History and Professor of History at Indiana University, is visiting Potterville, Colorado this week as the Hewit Distinguished Professor of History this year at the University […]

Why not start at the top?

The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin has decided that it’s not enough to hire junior women faculty and wait for them to progress through the “leaky pipeline“–it […]

What I learned from the comments thread at Tenured Radical

Did any of you see Tenured Radical’s post yesterday about the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue 2014, “Happiness is a Cold, Plastic Doll?” This year it features Barbie on the cover, but the same […]

20th anniversary of the massacre at L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal

Ann Bartow at Feminist Law Profs reminds us that today is the twentieth anniversary of the murders of women engineering students at l’École Polytechnique in Montreal on December 6, 1989. Because of this terrible event, today […]

“What about Women in Early American History?” In which Historiann and friends get up on their high horses and rope ’em up good

Howdy, cowgirls and dudes–here’s my long-overdue report on a conversation we had Friday afternoon, June 12 at the Omohundro Institute’s Fifteenth Annual Conference in Salt Lake City. Called “What about Women in Early America?”it […]