Shorts
Can the Archive Make a Monster of a Historian?
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A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster…
Shorts
Beastly Transformations
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as gluttonous as a pig, as angry as a lion, as quarrelsome as a dog
Shorts
2025 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
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A companion list for lit studies scholars.
Shorts
2025 Contingent Book List
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When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
Field Trip
What’s the Point?
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Reflections on a year spent teaching history at the United States Military Academy
Mailbag
You Can Study That?
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What could be more satisfying than immersing yourself in the history of something you love?
Reviews
Dressed for Reform
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Long before it was fashionable, Bloomer pioneered what would later be dubbed “respectability politics”
Postcards
Postcard from a Southerner in Harlem
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A visit to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Reviews
The Search for Intelligence
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the intelligence individuals are less James Bond and George Smiley than bureaucrats
Shorts
The Losses: Of Archives and Arthropods
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Dead for centuries, the bees can help save their living descendants
Field Trip
The Shamrock and the Sham
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though in an idyllic setting, I was poised above a mass grave.
Shorts
Good Queers and Bad Queers
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myths fed back as stereotypes and strawmen to divine some boundary for acceptability
Shorts
The Losses: The History of Genomics Program
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The archive my colleagues and I have built and maintained since 2012 is inaccessible.
Field Trip
On the Road to Allahabad
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A destroyed car at the entrance is hardly a sign that the archive is near.
Shorts
Alison’s Contingent Story
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People are genuinely curious about the past and excited to encounter it in unexpected ways.
Mailbag
What Does A Public History Consultant Do?
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There are so many wonderful opportunities in this field. Sometimes, you create your own.
Mailbag
Are You Making Money As A Consultant?
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When I tell people I’m a consulting public historian, this is how they respond.
How I Do History
How Rebecca Brenner Graham Does History
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“I was fortunate to do graduate school during the height of academic blogging.”
Bonus
Food For Interplanetary Thought
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“I do not understand why you take the trouble to consume this bulk material to sustain yourselves.”
Reviews
Madam Secretary
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Even within an uncaring government bureaucracy, one person could make a difference.
Field Trip
“HAVE QUOTES ABOUT SALIERI”
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How someone already convinced of a conspiracy theory reads non-conspiratorial sources.