Archive

July 2018

• 06: Ruining the Army

June 2018

• 30: ‘Fear’s a dangerous thing…’
• 16: Organiz­ing and Commu­ni­cat­ing Historical Knowledge: Some Personal Observations
• 14: Lost in Translation: The Stanford Prison Experiment
• 13: Blogging before Conferencing
• 09: DC Metro
• 09: Elephant Seals

December 2017

• 27: Monsters in the News

November 2017

• 11: “Caesar Mussolini”

October 2017

• 13: Aaargh!
• 06: How Open is Open Access?

September 2017

• 16: American Women at War
• 15: The Writing Lesson
• 15: “Colonizability of Africa”

August 2017

• 09: Dear National Security Establishment

July 2017

• 23: The Limits of Fact-Checking

June 2017

• 25: Encouraging Immigrants to Buy into the War Effort
• 23: War, Gender, and Nation in 19th-Century Europe: A Preliminary Sketch
• 22: Angry America
• 22: Cultural History and the History of Knowledge
• 15: ‘Hunger knows no armistice…’
• 15: ‘Dead, but the remains are still with us’

May 2017

• 02: Child Labor in the United States

April 2017

• 03: Knowledge and Agency
• 03: Why History of Knowledge?

March 2017

• 09: Blogging to Keep that Writing Muscle Fit
• 05: ‘Global Knowledge Supply Chains’ and ‘Civic Engagement’

February 2017

• 26: A Refugee in New York, 1942
• 26: Duck and Cover: 1951 Civil Defense Film for Kids
• 22: Calvin and Hobbes for Editors
• 20: A hard thing to teach
• 19: A Military History Critique
• 18: Information, Sociability, Reality Check
• 17: Old Photographs
• 15: Kyrie
• 14: 10,000 Threads
• 14: Bicycle Taxi Driver
• 13: Teachers
• 13: Rumors
• 12: An Encounter between our Enslaved and our Immigrant Pasts
• 12: Intersections
• 11: The History of Knowledge and Contemporary Discourse on Science
• 11: Richard Evans on Trump
• 10: Seen at Dupont Circle tonight
• 09: What’s Going On?
• 08: The Present in the Past
• 06: Assault on Facts and Credibility
• 05: Justitia
• 04: Correction to ‘Governmental Data Erasure’
• 03: Governmental Data Erasure
• 03: Don’t be a Sucker (1947)
• 03: German Magazine Cover
• 03: Blogged at History of Knowledge
• 02: Federal Workers
• 02: ‘History and its Limits’

January 2017

• 29: Feels Like…
• 29: The Past in the Present
• 28: Tyranny of the Minority
• 22: Feminism
• 22: Gaslighting
• 18: Cognition as a Social Activity

December 2016

• 20: Hate Speech
• 20: Science Articles, or Any Academic Prose
• 20: Kill the Historians
• 19: WordPress Email
• 17: Preparing to Fight the Last War? Maybe Not
• 11: Categories

November 2016

• 13: ACLU’s Open Letter to Mr. Trump
• 12: Grafenwöhr 1983
• 10: After the Election
• 10: The Burden of Fact

October 2016

• 22: #GHImaps
• 20: Tonight’s Lecture

September 2016

• 24: Automation

July 2016

• 25: The American Face of Fascism
• 09: ‘Black Man Driving’
• 08: A Few Notes on the History of Knowledge

June 2016

• 27: History Telling
• 27: Rates of Change
• 27: Commonplacing

April 2016

• 16: Georgetown University’s Massive Slave Sale (1)

November 2015

• 09: Historiographi­cal Impasse

July 2015

• 30: Communism, Consumerism, and Currency

May 2015

• 03: Kitchens of the Future

March 2015

• 08: History and the Packaged Gnocchi

December 2014

• 12: 2014 Archival Seminar Report
• 07: Terence Zuber, Military History, and Culture
• 05: German Scholarly Monographs (4)

November 2014

• 29: Why Atrocities?
• 29: Sand Creek (1)
• 27: Digitized Resources for World War I Research
• 25: Happy Thanksgiving!
• 23: Housekeeping
• 21: ‘Not a Military Historian’

October 2014

• 31: Miscellany

October 2013

• 15: Archival Summer Seminar 2013

June 2013

• 06: Archival Seminar

January 2013

• 13: Book Review: GDR and Consumption

September 2012

• 29: Teaching Notes: Synthesis and Process

July 2012

• 03: Reflections after Class (1)

June 2012

• 13: Requiring Students to Use Chicago Style (or Turabian or Whatever)

May 2012

• 13: Military History Conference (3)

April 2012

• 28: Command Culture by Jörg Muth (2)

March 2012

• 18: Who Should Groener’s Schlieffen Plan Matter To?
• 03: Separating Writing from Formatting (1)

February 2012

• 27: Refuting Straw Men and Explaining What Happened
• 26: German Handwriting from 98 Years Ago
• 19: Working through More Journals
• 14: Catch-Up Reading and Article Idea
• 13: Dissertation on Internet Archive
• 11: Terence Zuber’s Image of War and the Schlieffen Plan Debate
• 05: Still Reading the Dissertation

January 2012

• 31: Military History and Business History
• 28: From Dissertation to . . . What? (3)
• 22: Another Fresh Start

April 2011

• 10: Consumption History Again
• 09: Editing and Consumption History

March 2011

• 14: Using an iPad to Grade Student Papers

November 2010

• 10: Foreign Language Competency in the U.S.

August 2010

• 14: Learning to Synthesize History

March 2010

• 22: The Politics of Identity and How We Learn History

January 2010

• 12: History without Reading
• 07: History 100 Again
• 07: Plagiarism Again

October 2009

• 28: Contemporary Political Rhetoric and Teaching History

August 2009

• 28: What Having a Socialist Nazi in the White House Means for the Classroom

July 2009

• 23: Miracle Workers by Taylor Mali

March 2009

• 08: A Different Approach to History 100?

December 2008

• 26: Is College Worth It?
• 25: A Christmas Short Film from 1898
• 22: Atrocities in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870–71
• 21: A New Personal Record in Plagiarism Cases

November 2008

• 16: Language Study Tip: Daily Practice
• 15: Online Forums: Blackboard and Wikispaces

September 2008

• 25: Professor Wikipedia

August 2008

• 26: Lessons from the Classroom
• 04: “Conflict” (USSR 1983)

July 2008

• 30: The Vocabulary of Grammar
• 27: The Most Famous Closed Trial with Secret Evidence
• 22: Blogging and Myth-Busting
• 06: Authors of Interrogation Handbook Abuse Their Sources
• 04: Why I like the Declaration of Independence

June 2008

• 01: Summer Term

May 2008

• 19: Do You Link to Your Sources?
• 18: Ignorance or Deliberate Abuse?
• 15: Human Rights in the History Survey

April 2008

• 15: Textbook Costs

March 2008

• 14: Fostering Historical Thinking with Brecht’s Galileo
• 12: Spring Break and Teaching

January 2008

• 20: When Experts Are Forced to Talk to Outsiders
• 14: Historians Speak about the Profession
• 10: When Google Gets it Wrong

December 2007

• 08: Germany and the United States on the Eve of the Cold War

November 2007

• 23: Military Studies in Liberal Arts Education
• 23: Fluency and Accuracy
• 11: Donald Duck Goes to War

October 2007

• 28: Outsourcing Revisited: Doonesbury at War
• 09: Historians and Politics
• 08: Outsourcing Military Tasks

September 2007

• 11: Six Years Ago
• 09: Stumbling Upon a Dissertation Topic

August 2007

• 28: The Cold War Museum
• 25: Wilhelm Groener (1867–1939)
• 13: Good Old Stalin

July 2007

• 26: Stereoptic Views of the Great War
• 21: Across Generations
• 21: Paradoxes
• 10: Politics in the Classroom

May 2007

• 23: On Writing
• 22: Writing Strategies