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Who can defend the sexualization of work environments now? | Historiann
I know it's been a long blog-silence around these parts. More on that later, but I've got something to say and I think we all need to hear it. It's gotten so a bish can't look at the internets or the cover of the Rolling Stone without more news about scummy scumbag men using their professional…
History will repay your love. You don’t have to be a jerk. | Historiann
Peggy Noonan's column in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, "Why History Will Repay Your Love" (sorry--paywalled!) is an extended advertisement for David McCullough's latest book, and only secondarily an advertisement for McCullough's totally original observations about history and its importance. (Get this! John Adams and Thomas Jefferson lived in their present, not our past! Also,…
Call for Papers: Women and Religion in the Early Americas | Historiann
Howdy, friends--I've got a big announcement today! Many of you may know that Mary Maples Dunn, a prominent early American women's historian, died in March. Nicole Eustace of New York University invited me to co-edit a special edition of Early American Studies in her honor. Here are the details: Call For Papers: Women and Religion…
#StanfordSausageFest: “A return to history’s dark age as a gentlemen’s protection society?” A response from the Coordinating Council of Women Historians | Historiann
I've been asked by the authors of this statement by the Coordinating Council for Women Historians at the American Historical Association to republish their response to the #StanfordSausageFest published yesterday at History News Network. The authors link the specter of a return to "history’s dark age as a gentlemen’s protection society" to recent consciousness-raising efforts to…
I still have parents, and I still love the old world. | Historiann
Since everything is Watergate-mania this week, this alternative view of the United States in the 1970s is worth a few minutes of your time today. Check out this old-school, shaky-cam cinema verité video accompanied by the Modern Lovers's "Old World," (1972): If you watch the video closely you'll see a New York that's hard to come by…
Esther, encore, and farewell to the U.S.A. | Historiann
Friends, I know it's been a quiet month on the blog. What can I say? The news moves at the speed of light these days, and it's difficult for me sometimes to conceptualize anything to add to the frantic online conversations. I wrote up a short article, "The Captivity of Otto Warmbier: Outsiders, Insiders, and…
My review of Adele Perry’s Colonial Relations (2015) is live at Borealia! | Historiann
Hello friends--today's post is just a little bagatelle from my review of Adele Perry's excellent Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World (Cambridge University Press, 2015) at Borealia: A Group Blog on Early Canadian History. This is a "translocal" history of the extended family of Sir James Douglas (1803-77) and Amelia Connolly Douglas (1812-90) that…
Coats of Arms are bullcrap. We all know this, right? | Historiann
Liberal and left-leaning news orgs are happily publicizing the latest evidence of the dishonesty by the Human Stain (and his family). He has allegedly ripped off another family's coat-of-arms and rebranded it (you guessed it) as "TRUMP." I have a few thoughts that may prove unpopular, but here goes: First, this seems to be a…
Know anyone at Evergreen State? I have some thoughts, but want to know more. | Historiann
Did anyone else see this article from the Wall Street Journal last night: "The Campus Mob Came for Me, and You, Professor, Could Be Next?" Some flava: Racially charged, anarchic protests have engulfed Evergreen State College, a small, public liberal-arts institution where I have taught since 2003. In a widely disseminated video of the first…
Bear season, Colorado and royal castle-style | Historiann
I'm not in Colorado, but my sources there are keeping me abreast of one of my favorite things about summer there: close encounters with bears and cougars in the WUI (the Wildlife Urban Interface). Today's news does not disappoint! A 19-year old camper in Ward was attacked by a bear. The Denver Post headline explains…