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Timothy Egan is the only guy who gets it - Historiann
Timothy Egan is the kind of guy you’d think I could agree with: He thinks history is important! He thinks we should write history to engage and fascinate our readers! He thinks assaults on high school Advanced Placement history classes are foolish, as he states in his recent essay on…
The word "rape" has been disappeared from the English language - Historiann
UPDATED BELOW At least in the coverage of Roman Polanski’s arrest it has! I keep hearing about how he was arrested in Switzerland this weekend on a 32-year old charge of “having sex with” a then-13 year old girl. (This New York Times story will stand as representative of the…
Craptastic "History" Channel: D00dstorians only! - Historiann
Here’s an e-mail from a loyal reader who was forwarded this message from a “History” Channel casting associate–and not because the forwarder thought my reader might be eligible for the job! (If you recall, I’ve had some choice bons mots here about the quality of programming on the “History” Channel in the…
In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic. - Historiann
Now, why would a guy as incredibly handsome, smart, and successful as David Brooks feel the need to churn out another concern-trolling column urging women to choose marriage over career success? It’s clear that this rugged specimen of American manhood should have nothing whatsoever to worry about in terms of attracting and holding…
An elegy for the apostrophe, and a defense thereof (in a manner of speakin’.) - Historiann
Henry Hitchings suggests that my crusade to make students understand the correct use of the apostrophe may put me on the wrong side of history. He says the apostrophe vexed printers and writers who were confused about its application almost from the time of its invention in the sixteenth century, through its proliferation in…
Another lesson for girls: love your body - Historiann
The doyenne of adolescent and college student health history, Knitting Clio, has written an utterly appropriate lesson for girls, number 11: “Love your body.” She adds some thoughts too about Brooke Shields, and even scares up one of those scandalous old magazine advertisements for Calvin Klein Jeans. (Just click here to see it–go on, click–I…
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…
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…
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…
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…
#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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…