Thoughts on “No More Plan B: A Very Modest Proposal for Graduate Programs in History”
Today I stole my wife's copy of AHA Perspectives and Anthony Grafton and Jim Grossman's essay "No More Plan B," on the need to reform history graduate programs
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Skip to contentToday I stole my wife's copy of AHA Perspectives and Anthony Grafton and Jim Grossman's essay "No More Plan B," on the need to reform history graduate programs
Inside Higher Ed reports that the American Historical Association has just released a position paper, co-authored by AHA president Anthony Grafton and AGA executive director James Grossman, arguing
After a couple months working on it, I've been thinking about the experience of writing a serious non-fiction book. It's been a stretch for me, in quite a
This echoes feelings I've had, and I've heard plenty of other people express: I have given up my secure academic job as Reader at the University of the
Okay, all publishing involves at least a little bit of vanity, but... I recently published an article in an Elsevier journal, and today they sent me a message
...even when they're published "in a little-read journal," as Ezra Klein points out. He's talking about Elizabeth Warren's 2007 article proposing a Financial Products Safety Commission-- which she
I have a bunch of books-- probably a couple hundred-- from my professional/scholarly collection that I want to give away. Most are history (with an emphasis on European
I noticed a traffic spike on the blog, thanks to Lexi Lord's essay on post-academic life in the recent Chronicle of Higher Education (thanks, Lexi!). She talks about
Author and creative writing teacher Rachel Toor writes in the latest Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) about the problems of either dashing off talks the night before,
In the last few days I've been doing a lot of stuff: biking, organizing a Memorial Day dinner, preparing for a week-long trip to the East Coast, thinking