How I Do History
How Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Does History
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“I didn’t know my quirky obsession could be a job in its own right.”
Mailbag
How Do You Publish A Book Off The Tenure Track?
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Publishing off the tenure-track is possible, but not without its challenges.
How I Do History
How Spencer McBride Does History
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“To see scholars use the papers in their own research to produce groundbreaking history is something we celebrate.”
Shorts
The Strange World of AP U.S. History
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Born out of the Cold War, the course has a great contradiction at its heart: why do we teach history?
Bonus
Paper Trails and Primary Sources
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A first-time biographer approaches writing the first biography–of her great-grandfather.
Featured in Category
Expressions Of Radical Hope
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My agency in choosing modes of expression must extend to my students.
Reviews
Radical Hope and a Liberal Education
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What is the purpose of education? Is it just to fill jobs with skilled workers?
Reviews
Contingency Is Not Complacency
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Just as Gannon calls for seeing students as humans we can trust, we also need to humanize and trust adjuncts.
How I Do History
How Chris Deutsch Does History
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“No one listens unless we tell a good story, so we try to tell good stories.”
Shorts
What About The Bad Job Offers?
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After finishing a doctoral program, the goal for many has always been a tenure-track job offer. But what about really terrible offers?
Features
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.”
Features
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.”
Features
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.”
Features
The White Background
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The SHEAR controversy has only exposed structural problems within the wider historical profession.
Features
History Now
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How is the pandemic shaping the work of history and the lives of those who do that work?
Features
Escape from New York (and from Columbia University)
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This is the way the American century ends.
Mailbag
Why Do Historians Go To Conferences?
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Packs of historians roam the streets, name tags flapping in the breeze, only to disappear into hotel conference rooms for hours at a time. What are they doing in there? And why?
Features
Bringing Academics To The Table
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What happens when academics collaborate with the restaurant industry? Good things (and better food).
Field Trip
Archiving Danville
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The mental institution had a lot of old volumes stored in a conference room, but they were behind locked cabinet doors and no one knew exactly what was there.
Field Trip
Of Strip Mines and Coal Slurry
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I’d spent years living simultaneously inside the West and outside of it.
Features
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.
Mailbag
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
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Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
Shorts
I Am A Historian I Make Exhibits
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Who are museum exhibits for, and what difference does that make?
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.
Mailbag
What Are the Different Kinds of College Faculty?
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Their jobs and salaries may differ, but you should still call them “Professor.”