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Monthly Archives: May 2020

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Field Trip

Catholic Library, Muslim Books

By N.A. Mansour | May 28, 2020

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

By Adam Shapiro | May 25, 2020

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?

By Narayani Basu | May 21, 2020

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

By Stephanie J. Richmond | May 19, 2020

How do we make sure faculty and students are on the same page when approaching a writing assignment?

Archives & Museums

How Jennifer Garcon Does History

By Contingent Magazine | May 15, 2020

“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

By Erin James | May 12, 2020

Most undergraduate history writing is done by non-majors. Does history writing instruction reflect that?

Shorts

Bowling For Suburbia

By Kate Reggev | May 8, 2020

By adopting middle-class aesthetics, the bar-basement bowling alley became the “poor man’s country club.”

Postcards

A Postcard from St. Louis

By John Vsetecka | May 5, 2020

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)

By Eduardo Vergara Torres | May 3, 2020

This is the way the American century ends.

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