Eastern State Penitentiary, Day 1
Last week I started a grand new adventure, one of several that this year is bringing. I had my first taste of Eastern State Penitentiary...
Dispatch from Dalmatia
This blog has had a bit of a fallow stretch. I've been busy with preparations for moving and generally trying to enjoy my last bit of...
"What Young Historians Are Thinking" Symposium: June 4, 2016
This weekend in Mount Joy is the 2016 edition of the "What Young Historians Are Thinking" symposium, sponsored jointly by the Lancaster...
'Ghettoside' by Jill Leovy
A couple of months ago I was reading an article about gun violence in America and a factoid caught my attention: "Eighteenth-century...
Remembering the Black Hawk War
Historical markers must have been on my mind after hearing that NPR story (featured in my "Collected Links" blog post), because the other...
Collected Links
Often I come across stories online that connect in someway with what I'm reading or thinking about at the time. Sometimes on this blog,...
The Long Answer
Since I've been living in Wisconsin, this has been a conversation that I've had a lot: "So where are you from?" they ask. "Pennsylvania,"...
Artifice and Cultural Institutions in 'Bats of the Republic' by Zachary Thomas Dodson
Zachary Thomas Dodson's Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel is an achievement. It's the kind of book that reaffirms that books...
Looking forward
About four months stand between me and my re-entry into an academic setting and I need to get my head in the right space. To start...
