Shorts
A Profession, If You Can Keep It
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Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.
Mailbag
Don’t We Have To Judge People By The Standards Of Their Time?
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Many who reach for this cliché want it to function as a shield against judgment altogether.
Features
A Little More Knowledge Lights Our Way
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Who gets to take meaning from things and have that meaning-making respected and valued?
Postcards
A Postcard from the 2019 NEMA Conference
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At museum conferences, there are usually no easily-portable solutions. Institutional differences matter.
What is Contingent?
Showing the Work
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Sharing the products of historical inquiry isn’t enough—we’ve got to show our work.
Shorts
It Was History All Along, Mom
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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?
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In general, academic writing doesn’t earn you anything, and most of the time, it costs you.
