Field Trip
Catholic Library, Muslim Books
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In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans in Cairo collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works rarely found in other libraries.
Features
The Star in the Stones
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The scanned image looked sharper than the framed photograph at my grandmother’s house. And only now did I notice a strange detail.
Featured in Category
How Do You Write A Biography?
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For this historian, the key in telling her subject’s story was to marry the personal with the public, as honestly as it might be possible to do.
Featured in Category
The Process of Writing History
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How do we make sure faculty and students are on the same page when approaching a writing assignment?
Bonus
Contingent Podcast #5: All The Presidents’ Librarians
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Michael Koncewicz compares Watergate to Russia/Ukraine-gate, pushes back on Richard Nixon revisionism, explains the difference between an archivist and a curator, and recalls his first dance with a girl.
Archives & Museums
How Jennifer Garcon Does History
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“There’s so much experimentation and innovation happening in libraries” and Jennifer Garcon is right in the thick of it.
Reviews
Starting With The Essentials
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Most undergraduate history writing is done by non-majors. Does history writing instruction reflect that?
Shorts
Bowling For Suburbia
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By adopting middle-class aesthetics, the bar-basement bowling alley became the “poor man’s country club.”
Postcards
A Postcard from St. Louis
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The undergraduate panels I saw in St. Louis served as a good reminder that Slavic Studies is in good hands.
Features
Escape from New York (and from Columbia University)
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This is the way the American century ends.