One of the best parts of my job is being the coordinator for graduate students at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. I wrote about the graduate student experience at RRCHNM for the start of the semester.
One of the best parts of my job is being the coordinator for graduate students at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. I wrote about the graduate student experience at RRCHNM for the start of the semester.
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Red Sox at Orioles.
If you had told me when I booked these tickets months ago that the Orioles would have a better record than the Red Sox, I would not have believed you.
On the ramparts of Fort McHenry.
The other new office view.
Currently reading: The Beat Cop: Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the Creation of Irish Music by Michael O’Malley 📚
This is not the ASCH you are looking for.
We recently moved to a new house. I believe I will be able to make this working arrangement work.
Currently reading: Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West by Cameron Blevins 📚
Here is an amazing eighteenth-century devotional and illuminated manuscript that the Winterthur Museum is digitizing and that RRCHNM is going to help present online.
A fun kids’ playground next to a municipal airport, where the kids can watch light planes take off and land.
JBJ struck out one and got out of the inning allowing only one run. Which is better than every Red Sox pitcher in this game.
Jackie Bradley Jr. is one of my favorite Red Sox players.
Watching JBJ, a position player, pitch against the Yankees in the ninth inning is not my favorite.
My colleague and I submitted two grants today. Pretty wiped out.
Currently reading: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen 📚
Writing grants all this week. It occurs to me that as a historian I am a non-fiction writer, but that grants are a form of speculative fiction.
Currently reading: Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers by Charles McCrary 📚
In our most recent Religion @ RRCHNM newsletter, we feature Jannelle Legg’s digitally-inflected dissertation on the Episcopal Church’s 19c Mission to Deaf-Mutes, as well as current PhD student Caroline Greer’s work on the Reverend Ida Bedell Manville. Grad student themed issue!
Pleasant walk beside the canal in Indianapolis.
I wish there were a way to write a 1,500 word essay without first writing a 3,500 word essay and then cutting it back. But if there is such a way, it has thus far eluded me in life.
I’m looking forward to attending the biennial conference hosted by Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. The conference format—a single session at a time with audience surrounding panelists—makes for good discussion. Plus there is a great line up this year.
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Currently reading: Radicalized by Cory Doctorow 📚
My children love ribs more than anything, so I did the best I could with my humble kettle grill and my even humbler ability.
Congratulations to Kris Stinson, who has published his first article, “American Babel: History and Empire in the Early American Republic,” out in the most recent issue of the Journal of the Early Republic.