Hotshot Harry in Tucumcari has happy problems
Because that last letter in the mailbag was such a buzzkill (but thanks very much for all of the supportive comments!), here’s a very polite someone with very nice problems. Hotshot Harry (who […]
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Demoralized Debby from DSU desires to return to academia
detail from “Sad Woman” by Gilli Moon Today’s mail brings an urgent plea from Debby, who needs your advice, dear readers: Dear Historiann, I graduated from a top university in my subdiscipline; I […]
Leave? Or, the once-and-future state of maternity leave in academia
Today’s post is a guest post by Anonymous, an Assistant Professor in a Humanities department at a large, public university and (for now) the mother of one child. Here, she tells us the […]
“The great life-long mistake”: young marriage in the United States
Friends, today I give you a guest post from Nicholas L. Syrett, my BFF and neighboring historian in Northern Colorado. His second book is out now–American Child Bride: A History of Minors and […]
Who’s telling who to STFU at American universities? Observations on teaching at a HWCU.
Ah, yes: freedom of speech. What some really mean when they evoke it is, “my right to have my say and not have you talk back,” like all of those crybabies who have […]
“History Under Attack:” Tony Grafton is spoiling for a fight.
Incoming 2011 American Historical Association President Anthony Grafton, the distinguished early modern European intellectual historian at Princeton University, has published a stemwinder of an article in the January 2011 issue of Perspectives, called “History Under Attack” (sorry–subscription required! I’ll […]