Year: 2021
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In-home and residential care options for octogenarians have become extremely limited in these trying times, so I’ve been spending the last quarter of 2021 at my parents’ in the White Mountains. This will continue into 2022. I miss DC, but it’s not like I can take advantage of the city’s…
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William Germano offers excellent advice on revision in ten tweets, which I saved on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
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Quotation: Dana Milbank on warped notions of freedom and community.
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A short article I wrote with Kerstin von der Krone about History of Knowledge, the first blog in the German Historical Institute Washington’s scholarly publishing program, is now open access. See “Blogging Histories of Knowledge in Washington, DC,” in “Digital History,” ed. Simone Lässig, special issue, Geschichte und Gesellschaft 47,…
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WPA poster promoting public hygiene: “Keep Clean” by Erik Hans Krause, ca. 1936–39.
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Photograph of a tree with vibrant blossoms.
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“An Austrian went to Radziwill and came right on to a peasant woman’s pitchfork,” Russian print by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, 1914–15, New York Public Library Digital Collections. The library has digitized five more prints in this series.
