Category: Commonplacing
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Quotation: Adam Gopnik on the man who became president a few months later.
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Quotation: Jo Guldi and David Armitage on the problematic distance between professional historians and the general public
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Quotation: Peter Burke reminds us that not all phenomena are shaped by the same temporality.
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At the end of his English-language review of Anne Sudrow’s long book (in German) about the shoe in National Socialism, Neil Gregor has some choice remarks about German academic publishing, particularly dissertations and the second advanced dissertation (Habilitation) that would-be professors in Germany have to write.1 Of course, he does…
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Quotation and link to an article by Ned Blackhawk on the 150th anniversary of this atrocity.
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Quotations by Mills Kelly and John McClymer.