Postcards
A Postcard from Singapore
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We were there to share our work on offshore islands across Southeast Asia — an exciting opportunity for a grad student like me, from a landlocked city.
Mailbag
Don’t We Have To Judge People By The Standards Of Their Time?
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Many who reach for this cliché want it to function as a shield against judgment altogether.
Shorts
guys (etc)
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I had never seen a mustache like that before—so blond and full and pin-neat, as it had to be for the power company.
Field Trip
How Nick Hurley Does History
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The second in a series on how historians—especially contingent historians and those employed outside of tenure-track academia—do the work of history.
Bonus
Contingent Podcast #2: What Happened to My People
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The second half of PBS’s Reconstruction documentary begins where the traditional narrative ends.
Shorts
The Work of Getting Clean
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“An ex-addict without employment is an ex-addict without cure.” Or so the mantra went.
Mailbag
Why Do Historians Go To Conferences?
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Packs of historians roam the streets, name tags flapping in the breeze, only to disappear into hotel conference rooms for hours at a time. What are they doing in there? And why?