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Blood on Our Hands
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What did Truman and Oppenheimer actually say in that room?
Contingent Book & Article Lists
2023 Contingent Book List
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When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
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A Known and Unknown War
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Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.
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Ain’t I Some Pumpkins?
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Soon after he was elected, Abraham Lincoln received a rather bizarre letter.
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The Dentist Who Defrauded Two Governments—and a Historian, Part II
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What happens when forged documents enter the historical record?
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The Dentist Who Defrauded Two Governments—and a Historian, Part I
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What happens when forged documents enter the historical record?
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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.
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.
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Hi Person Reading This!
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We are both former yearbook staffers who became professional historians.
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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.
Contingent Book & Article Lists
2021 Contingent Journal Article List
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A companion to our 2021 book list.
Contingent Book & Article Lists
2021 Contingent Book List
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When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
Features
Over Time and Then All at Once
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Kashmir is no longer the peripheral zone of exception, but rather the beta-version of what gets implemented in the mainland.
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The Brink of Erasure
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The impending demolition of the National Archives Annexe is a crisis, not just for the study of history, but for Indian democracy.
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Conspiracy to Commit Sodomy
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Within the longer history of gay spaces and gay porn, eBay’s policing of “adult materials” is nothing new.
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The Strange Case of Booker T. Washington’s Birthday
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If Booker T. Washington never knew when he was born, how are we so sure about it now?
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Ground Operations
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I had already completed my freshman year when I first learned what an adjunct was.
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Teaching In The Age Of COVID Part III
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“I always felt like I’d find answers in the past. I don’t really find any answers.”
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Teaching In The Age Of COVID Part II
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“This experience was so ridiculously traumatic for everyone—and it’s not over yet, either.”
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Teaching In The Age Of COVID Part I
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“We’re trying to help our students navigate this while also trying to navigate the situation ourselves.”
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The White Background
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The SHEAR controversy has only exposed structural problems within the wider historical profession.
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History Now
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How is the pandemic shaping the work of history and the lives of those who do that work?
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The Star in the Stones
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The scanned image looked sharper than the framed photograph at my grandmother’s house. And only now did I notice a strange detail.
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Escape from New York (and from Columbia University)
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This is the way the American century ends.
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An Interrupted Journey
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In 1908, Canada tried to deport the South Asian population of Vancouver. But the community stood its ground and won.
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Oscar’s Hill
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A decades-long quest, bordering on obsession, leads one man to a small village in the Sierra Juarez—and, perhaps, to the Hill of the Jaguar.
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The Life And Times Of Mr. Peanut
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Mr. Peanut embodies two seemingly-distinct but deeply-connected Virginian worlds.
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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?
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Sacred Objects
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A medieval relic economy operates in the Star Wars universe—and in the universe of its fans.
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Death to the Ewoks
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Though the genocidal event isn’t canon, many fans apparently wish it was.
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If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Batuu
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To work, a theme park needs to collapse the mythic pasts that it depicts with the pasts of our own lives.
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Fandom: A Star Wars Story
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This is about much more than Star Wars—it is about media bias and “information disorder” in the twenty-first century.
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Bringing Academics To The Table
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What happens when academics collaborate with the restaurant industry? Good things (and better food).
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Arming the Past: An Interview with Michael Bellesiles
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He wrote one of the most contentious works of history from the last century. And he sat down with Daniel Gullotta for his first public discussion of the controversy in nearly a decade.
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All the Presidents’ Librarians
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Despite being spied on and intimidated during my time in Yorba Linda, I still think presidential libraries are too important for historians to wash their hands of them.
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From #TakeEmDown to #TakeEmOn
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She led the movement against Memphis’s Confederate monuments, and now she’s running for mayor. An interview with Tami Sawyer.
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Hunting Dinosaurs in Central Africa
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Before ancient aliens—before Lizard People—there was the search for living dinosaurs.
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Did the Left Think Watergate Was a Distraction?
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Was the Left as skeptical about Watergate as it is today about the Trump-Russia story?
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War Happens in Dark Places, Too
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In thick woods and swamplands and on small river islands, they bided their time.