Erstwhile blogger Caroline Grego compiles a short list of history-related news links from the past month, which may or may not be exactly from March. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Visualization by Matthew Burdumy and Professor Adam Rothman This website is not an article, but it is a valuable teaching tool and, technically, a “link.” Matt…
Erstwhile blogger Caroline Grego compiles a short list of history-related news links from the past month, which may or may not be exactly from January. The Virtue of Scientific Thinking by Steven Shapin For those history of science folks out there, Shapin explores the roots of scientific thinking, tracing its meaning and how it has…
Erstwhile blogger Caroline Grego presents a grab-bag of the most intriguing history and environmental writing from across the vasts of the Internet each month, according to her subjective and limited perspective. The Ottoman Empire’s First Map of the Newly Minted United States by Nick Danforth This remarkable map shows us how the Ottomans saw the newly birthed United States.…
Erstwhile blogger Caroline Grego presents a grab-bag of the most intriguing history and environmental writing from across the vasts of the Internet each month, according to her subjective and limited perspective. This round-up includes links from August as well, because sometimes the start of the school year gets you just that busy. What does it mean to think historically?…
Erstwhile blogger Caroline Grego presents a grab-bag of the most intriguing history and environmental writing from across the vasts of the Internet each month, according to her subjective and limited perspective. The Case for Reparations: A Narrative Bibliography by Ta-Nehisi Coates Okay, so this one is cheating a bit. This is a four-part series written by Ta-Nehisi Coates,…
Erstwhile’s Caroline Grego shares her tips for putting together a thoughtful summer reading list. What is a pre-comps graduate student in history to do with their summers? Because I began my Ph.D. just last year, I am still in a floundering-for-a-thesis-topic stage and thus have no need for summertime research trips. Because I am in the humanities…
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