Reed Chervin (History M.A., CU Boulder) recently began his PhD work at The University of Hong Kong. His arrival coincided with Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, and he photographed some of the scenes for Erstwhile. Thanks to Reed for his contribution! In preparation for the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, the British and Chinese governments drafted…
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’s Keith Aksel writes about the historical significance of the College Football Playoff and the flaws of everything that came before it. No sport has cheated its fans quite like big-time college football. Sure, the 1994 Major League Baseball strike and the steroid era that followed comes close. But, baseball’s moment of fan abuse only…
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,…
Spring Greeney, a graduate student of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, assists with Erstwhile’s blogosphere debut in this response to the Jill Lepore and Clayton Christensen debate over disruptive innovation theory. Moving past media focus on the vitriol of the tussle, she suggests three lessons we historians can learn from this conversation and asks…
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