Bonus
The Case of the Empty Bookshelves
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Why were librarians keeping the titian-haired detective off their shelves?
History & Mystery
The Song of the Dying Composer
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Attaching a mystery to a famous musician or work gives us something to hold onto.
History & Mystery
The Mystery of the Social-Climbing Copywriter
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Smoke your way to a peaceful working-class life.
History & Mystery
The Plot of the Dime Store Dostoyevsky
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The master of the psychodrama mystery was Jim Thompson.
History & Mystery
The Clue in the Old Lace
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Fashion history is rarely as straightforward as Nancy Drew led me to believe.
Contingent Book & Article Lists
2022 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
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A companion list for lit studies scholars.
Contingent Book & Article Lists
2022 Contingent Journal Article List
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A companion to our 2022 book list.
Contingent Book & Article Lists
2022 Contingent Book List
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When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
Mailbag
Why Do Archivists Get Rid Of Things (And Enjoy It)?
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Just because something is cool doesn’t mean it belongs in an archive.
Field Trip
Edward Guimont’s “From Outer Space”
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The Hills’ aliens wore clothing and spoke English—albeit with an unspecified “foreign accent.”
Features
The Dentist Who Defrauded Two Governments—and a Historian, Part II
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What happens when forged documents enter the historical record?
Features
The Dentist Who Defrauded Two Governments—and a Historian, Part I
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What happens when forged documents enter the historical record?
How I Do History
How Nishant Batsha Does History
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In those fleeting moments where I’m able to sit down at my desk in silence for five minutes or for two hours, I’d like to think that I’m a writer.
Reviews
The RRRevolution Will Be Cinematic
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This unflinching depiction of the British Raj and its terror is long overdue in Western pop culture.
Features
The Missouri Social Worker Who Started ICANN with Her Credit Card
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It was no longer appropriate for one computer scientist in Marina del Rey to control the Internet’s address book.
Postcards
A Postcard from New Haven, CT
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“When I entered the Sterling Memorial Library, I felt as though I stepped into a cathedral.”
Field Trip
Working at the NMML
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Two archivists share what it’s like at one of India’s largest archives.
How I Do History
How Yael Schacher Does History
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“There aren’t many history PhDs in the policy and advocacy spaces I now circulate in, but there should be more.”
Shorts
Dellwood: An Elegy for My Cat
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I’m an animal historian — I know the dog always dies in the end.
Mailbag
Why Can’t You Just Keep Doing Your Research on the Side?
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Frankly, even if I could, I wouldn’t want to.
How I Do History
How Shin Yu Pai Does History
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The most rewarding part of the experience is receiving the story.
Mailbag
Who Do Historians Write For?
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“I want my reader to enjoy reading it as much as I want to challenge myself writing it.”
Field Trip
My Trips to Vsetín
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I’m usually the first visitor to arrive, and there are never more than two others at the reading room at any time.
Mailbag
What If… Historians Were Honest About Counterfactuals?
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A single choice can branch out to infinite realities.
Science
A Social Network Born Of Social Distancing
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Scholars of science, technology, and medicine who are building a new community from the ground up.
Shorts
Hotline Suspense
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The entire plot of Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire turns around getting people on the phone.
Mailbag
Why Can’t You Just Get A Job At Your Partner’s School?
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If an academic couple can’t get a partner hire, they’re faced with a life-changing choice.
Features
Hi Person Reading This!
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We are both former yearbook staffers who became professional historians.
Postcards
A Postcard from Lubbock, TX
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I sometimes feel guilty about how much fun I have researching storm chasers.
Mailbag
Why Wasn’t This in My Textbook?
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In both versions of this question, the assumption is that there’s a pure history out there somewhere, perhaps with answers in the appendix.
How I Do History
How Allison Horrocks Does History
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“. . . if a wide brimmed Stetson gets us going, I’m content to start there.”
Shorts
Man of Smoke
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“I was trying to write the life of a man who had no life. What other options did I have?”
Features
The Salieri Rumor and Why Gossip Matters
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It didn’t take long for Salieri’s story to become almost completely removed from his music.
