On Signage
Signs are important. They let you know where the fire exit is or, more importantly, the location of the nearest bathroom. They tell you...


"Bring out your dead!"
Excuse my face-mask, the readings this week in each of my classes brought out my inner hypochondriac. I was reminded of the semester in...
Heritage, nostalgia, and "popular historymakers"
The readings for Managing History this week: The Presence of the Past by Roy Rosenzwieg and David Thelen, and Pennsylvania in Public...
Managing History
I've just begun graduate school and first impressions are mostly that it's a ton of reading. Which might have meant, but for a bit of...
Introducing AnabaptistHistorians.org!
Today a new collaborative blog launched! My good friend Joel Nofziger tapped a couple of historians* (who were all interested in studying...
Revisiting 'Partly Dave'
I'm working on a paper for my methods course and decided to revisit an old project. I realized that while I posted about it on a previous...