Category: history

• Overview

  May 11

  Is it over yet?Now is the time when my prick of a professor contacts my colleagues to let them know when the revised deadline is for their obligatory rewrite. Graduate… more ›

• May Day, May Day

  May 1

  As if to prove the rule from yesterday’s post, today’s headlines included “U.S. airstrike kills top Qaeda agent in Somalia” and “Car bomb kills at least 9 in Baghdad; U.S.… more ›

• Fidelidad

  Feb 19

  Just let me say amid the shouts of self-congratulatory glee across DC and Miami today: the problem with Cuba has never been Fidel Castro. Cuba’s problem has never had anything… more ›

• A walk down memory alley

  Feb 13

  December 11, 1988, Sunday Four days offoreplayand by the end of the week …Is no one real anymore? or anymore real?I touch and tease and talk,But I don’t see him… more ›

• Whither the Turks?

  Feb 6

  During the forty-six hours I spent in Budapest in the winter of ’96, I befriended another American at the hostel who was traveling the world researching the history of coffee… more ›

• What comes when I try to write…

  Dec 27

  “All of your anno Dominithe whole year longhas turned toanno servi, or two, orbetter yet:ano polaco…in a piece of the wor(l)dwhere slave and Slavde-fine the di-stance betweensix years—nine, but who’s… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday

  Nov 16

  Thumb drive? Check. I do, after all, need to record the grades of the precious students enrolled in the US history course I TA for. Stack of history quizzes? Check.… more ›

• Northern Latitude Dreaming

  Nov 12

  Instead of just sitting still long enough to grade 39 quizzes in US history over my break/office hour I’ve instead read through a couple of blog posts, did a search… more ›

• Observance

  Oct 8

  Today, on Columbus Day (Observed) I’m sitting through a lecture on early American history—yeah, academic calendars don’t quite match up to national holidays. (When I was at UD—boo! hiss!—I was… more ›

• Satellites

  Oct 4

  I’ve been meaning to write something on this tired, old, useless blog (or perhaps I’m describing myself) for several days now, but nothing seems to come to mind. Today, though,… more ›