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Who can defend the sexualization of work environments now?
I know it’s been a long blog-silence around these parts. More on that later, but I’ve got something to say and I think we all need to hear it. It’s gotten so a bish can’t look at the internets or the...
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Call for Papers: Women and Religion in the Early Americas
Mary Maples Dunn, 1931-2017 Howdy, friends–I’ve got a big announcement today! Many of you may know that Mary Maples Dunn, a prominent early American women’s historian, died in March. Nicole Eustace...
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Know anyone at Evergreen State? I have some thoughts, but want to know more.
WANTED: MORE INFORMATION! Did anyone else see this article from the Wall Street Journal last night: “The Campus Mob Came for Me, and You, Professor, Could Be Next?” Some flava: Racially charged,...
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History will repay your love. You don’t have to be a jerk.
Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1973), Republican U.S. Senator from Maine from 1949 until her death and the subject of numerous biographies. Peggy Noonan’s column in the Wall Street Journal this weekend,...
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You cursed brats, look what you’ve done! Or, why does the Wall Street Journal...
The editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is at it again this weekend. Hilariously, the ed board and many of its readers honestly believe that the fate of the republic rests on a few undergraduate...
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Alert the Media: Spring & summer book talk dates!
Yale University Press. 2016 For your convenience, here’s a list of my spring and early summer North American book tour stops. I hope to meet more of you in person, finally! Most of these events are...
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Quick, someone at a liberal arts college do something the Wall Street Journal...
Do I look like a dangerous leftist to you? . . . because they can’t complain endlessly about the “illiberal arts” majors at Middlebury College, can they? Or can they? The amount of ink they have...
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No Free Lunch? Or, how much work do we have to do to be collegial & promote...
I *love* getting letters! Friends, this semester is busybusybusy for me–I’m doing a lot of talks for the book, in addition to the usual teaching and service. I’ve just given up entirely on that little...
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The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright TONIGHT in South Berwick, Maine!
Yale University Press. 2016 Friends, if you’re in New England anywhere near the Piscataqua River, come out and see me talk about my book, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright*, at the Berwick...
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From the mailbag: it’s an old-fashioned, Historiann round-up!
A belated Valentine to all my readers! Oh, my friends: so much is happening globally, nationally, regionally, locally, and even here at the Black Cat Ranch that it’s hard to find time to blog even...
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We called it: MOOCs are dead as uni disruptors, but follow the money
Jonathan Rees has a brilliant postmortem of the MOOC phenomenon and its rapid, silent demise over the past few years. He writes: MOOCs are dead. “How can I possibly argue that MOOCs are dead?,” you...
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The story of the United States of America: we write this chapter.
This situation absolutely requires that a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part. I’m sorry I’ve been so quiet here lately–aside from the usual new semester kerfuffle, it’s been...
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Speaking of bubbles, the “higher ed bubble” bubble has popped, just in time...
Hey–remember all of those stories that were written at the depths of the Great Recession back in 2008-2010 about “the high cost of higher education,” warning young people not to waste their time or...
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
University of Illinois Press, 2016 The Junto is on fire this week! First, they published Casey Schmitt’s review of Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea, and then followed it up with Rachel Herrmann’s...
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#AHA17: No longhorns, but plenty of splinters up my skirt.
That old snag again? I’m just back at the ranch after half a week at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting 2017. I didn’t have a minute to blog or tweet about much of anything, seeing as...
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A woman’s work is never done, part II: and even when it is, it’s not on the...
WARNING: Inflammatory post ahead. This is a follow-up post to yesterday’s post, A woman’s work is never done, part I: the daily churn. My return to blogging yesterday was inspired by a recent...
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A woman’s work is never done, part I: the daily churn.
from A Peep into the Sports of Youth, and the Occupations and Amusements of Age, 1809, courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society You might think that’s my excuse for the silence around this old...
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Examinational-Harmonics, or, Historiann’s happy holiday liftoff
“Matrimonial-Harmonics,” James Gillray, London, 1805 The Good Elves failed to mark all of my exams last night, so I spent this morning packing for a holiday trip and grading 21 final essays by my...
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Teaser Tuesday: missing men & missing trousers! Whaaaaat?
Yo yo—What time is it? Showtime! OK, I’ll stop setting everything that goes through my head to the tune of various Hamilton: An American Musical songs. Sometimes it makes me wonder why I even bring...
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Hamilton: An American Musical in teaching and public outreach
Got a lot farther by working a lot harder, by being a lot smarter. . . Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1792 Please forgive the relative silence on this blog lately, friends. I’ve been...
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