May 2013
8 posts
“A problem is only a problem within a particular context. A solution is only a...”
– David Voelker, The Gray Box - The Gray Box Blog - The Humanities Know (Part 1)
WatchTHIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace (by The Glossary)
“We operate now in a world where information is endlessly available. It is the...”
– Jan Bultmann, “Discernment: Advice from a Hiring Manager to Humanities Students and Their Teachers” | 4Humanities
“ Greatest article on @jstor? jstor.org/stable/2852357 Medieval snail battles!...”
The Humane Digital →
by Timothy Burke
April 2013
6 posts
“As we fear, so we write. Fearful writing is different from covering the bases....”
– William Germano in Do We Dare Write for Readers? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“The standard dismissal of Twitter as a scholarly tool suggests that no serious...”
– Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Networking the Field | Planned Obsolescence
“So inflated and elevated is the global image of Marx, whether revered as a...”
– Jonathan Freedland’s review of ‘Karl Marx,’ by Jonathan Sperber - NYTimes.com
Filing, seventeenth-century style | The Collation →
via ayjay
March 2013
5 posts
“I had no thought of being a journalist in college, but in retrospect studying...”
– Tony Horwitz at The Way of Improvement Leads Home: So What CAN You Do With a History Major?: Part 23— An Interview with Tony Horwitz
“The challenge for someone trying to assess America, at this moment, is properly...”
– Departures - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
How Search Works →
The inside (but not totally inside) story from Google. Cool presentation.
February 2013
4 posts
The Usefulness of Uselessness, Redux →
by Timothy Burke
January 2013
12 posts
“Wineburg describes one historian’s reading in some detail; he was not an...”
– AHA President Kenneth Pomeranz in Not by Numbers Alone
“… Howard thought the computer should be adapted to the individual and not...”
– John McPhee quoted in John McPhee on structure and his text-editor - Lincoln A. Mullen
“Throughout my dozen years spent teaching, I have designed some terrible...”
– Richard E. Bond, whose recent Perspectives article offers some excellent reflections on how to use “failed” assignments as opportunities to improve teaching
“Imagine activists today persuading the country to shut down Apple and Google...”
– What ‘Lincoln’ misses and another Civil War film gets right - CNN.com
“Gaining intellectual control over source materials is a central part of our work...”
– Sharon Leon in Digital Methods for Mid-Career Avoiders? » [bracket]
On Productivity →
by David Sparks
“History is the raw material for nationalist or ethnic or fundamentalist...”
– Eric Hobsbawm, via Daniel Silliman: The political act of good history
“I’ve spent most of the past decade looking carefully at the ways that history is...”
– Mills Kelly at edwired » Blog Archive » The History Curriculum in 2023 (Making)
December 2012
8 posts
“Our subjects themselves are long gone; we maintain a healthy skepticism about...”
– Seth Perry in About a Book « The Junto
The Web We Lost →
by Anil Dash
Open is a noun, verb, adjective…and an attitude |... →
“Open is a willingness to share, not only resources, but processes, ideas, thoughts, ways of thinking and operating. Open means working in spaces and places that are transparent and allow others to see what you are doing and how you are doing it, giving rise to opportunities for people who could help you to connect with you, jump in and offer that help. And where you can reciprocate and do...
“Removing the books from their familiar niches takes time and requires a personal...”
– Handled With Care - NYTimes.com
“You know that episode of Dr. Who where the people of London have those little...”
– On Ending a Course « Tona Hangen
And Gladly Teach →
by William Cronon
November 2012
6 posts
“There’s a whole chapter on joking, humor and cleverness among hackers. And that,...”
– From Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers
The Tocquevillean Moment . . . and Ours →
by Wilfred M. McClay
The Historical Society: Teaching History to... →
An Interview with Sam Wineburg
Take Note →
An exploration of note-taking in Harvard University Collections
October 2012
5 posts
