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Erin Bartram

Erin Bartram is the Associate Director for Education at The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, CT. She earned a PhD in 2015 from the University of Connecticut, where she studied 19th century United States history with a focus on women, religion, and ideas. With Joe Fruscione, she co-edits the series <a href="https://kansaspress.ku.edu/series/rethinking-careers-rethinking-academia.html">Rethinking Careers, Rethinking Academia</a> for the University Press of Kansas. You can read more of her writing on history, pedagogy, and higher ed at her website, <a href="https://www.erinbartram.com">erinbartram.com</a>.

Shorts

A Profession, If You Can Keep It

By Erin Bartram | January 7, 2023

Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.

Postcards

A Postcard from Elmira, NY

By Erin Bartram | September 18, 2022

“What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.”

Mailbag

Don’t We Have To Judge People By The Standards Of Their Time?

By Erin Bartram | January 25, 2020

Many who reach for this cliché want it to function as a shield against judgment altogether.

Features

A Little More Knowledge Lights Our Way

By Erin Bartram | December 24, 2019

Who gets to take meaning from things and have that meaning-making respected and valued?

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Postcards

A Postcard from the 2019 NEMA Conference

By Erin Bartram | November 17, 2019

At museum conferences, there are usually no easily-portable solutions. Institutional differences matter.

What is Contingent?

Showing the Work

By Erin Bartram | September 3, 2019

Sharing the products of historical inquiry isn’t enough—we’ve got to show our work.

Mailbag

What Is Revisionist History?

By Erin Bartram | August 8, 2019

What is revisionist history–and is it dangerous?

Shorts

It Was History All Along, Mom

By Erin Bartram | May 5, 2019

Flowers, a day at the spa, a biography of Andrew Jackson? A meditation on mothers, history, Mother’s Day gift-giving.

Mailbag

How Much Money Do Historians Make From Their Writing?

By Erin Bartram | March 17, 2019

In general, academic writing doesn’t earn you anything, and most of the time, it costs you.

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Updates

Erin’s Contingent Story

By Erin Bartram | January 22, 2019

I know what it’s like to feel like history isn’t for me.

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