Year: 2016
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Quotation: Garrett Epps’s shock in November 2016
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Some participants of the conference I referenced in the previous post took it to twitter. See #GHImaps.
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My initial personal takeaway from tonight’s lecture on digital mapping: It looks useful as an analytical tool, and for presentation, but in the end we still have to write narratives. Historians have to make choices, not present facts that merely speak for themselves.
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I was standing near the driver in my bus yesterday, waiting for the light to change so I could get off. When the light turned green, but the car in front of us didn’t move, the driver beeped his horn. I said, “People need to get off their phones,” which earned…
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Quotation: Adam Gopnik on the man who became president a few months later.
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Link to a story by a friend in DC.
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One of the new research focuses at the GHI since our director, Simone Lässig, began her tenure last October is the history of knowledge.1 The study of knowledge in its societal context (as opposed to thought experiments about truth in the discipline of philosophy) has some tradition in sociology and…
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Quotation: Jo Guldi and David Armitage on the problematic distance between professional historians and the general public