Finding an Intellectual Home: Recap of the 2018 WHA
Contributing editor Kerri Clement recounts her time spent at the Western History Conference in San Antonio.
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The Colossus in the Room
Erstwhile Contributing Editor Travis R May looks at how the Alt-History of The Man in the High Castle and Wolfenstein: The New Colossus has responded to the rise of the Alt-Right in America. This post does contain spoilers for The Man in the High Castle Season 3 and Wolfenstein: The New Colossus See also our earlier coverage of The Man…
The Conservative Origins of the New York Times
Contributing editor Graeme Pente examines the founder of the New York Times. My friends on the political left—the left proper, as distinct from liberals or the figments of Fox News’s feverish imagination—have sometimes expressed shock or dismay at the hostility The New York Times shows to elements of their program. The liberal paper of record’s efforts…
Erstwhile Interviews Dr. Kent Blansett on A Journey to Freedom
Erstwhile’s Alessandra Link caught up with Dr. Kent Blansett (Associate Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Omaha) to discuss his latest publication, A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement (Yale University Press, 2018). Dr. Blansett is also the Primary Investigator of the American Indian Digital History Project. An exhibit featuring items collected…
Tips for the First-Time TA
For many first-year graduate students, the advent of the school year brings all the promise of new experiences, new knowledge, and new challenges. Among the most nerve-racking of these challenges is the prospect of working as a teacher’s assistant for the first time. This August marks the eighth new school year that I have faced…
Erstwhile at the Movies: “Operation Finale”
Contributing Editor Travis R May delves into the history behind Operation Finale, a recent film depicting the capture of notorious Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann in Argentina in 1960. This post does contain spoilers for the film. The historical record and the 2018 film Operation Finale agree on the basic facts: on the night of May…
A Call to Share Researchers’ Personal Digital Archives
Erstwhile contributing editor Graeme Pente reflects on a summer of research and how researchers are amassing personal digital archives with thousands of photographs in each one. He believes we have an obligation to share them. Like many graduate students, I spent a good part of my summer rapidly snapping pictures of archival documents. I only had…
