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Fordham and history trivia fetish
The Fordham Institute's review of Florida's social-studies standards for history content simultaneously lauds the standards for a generally good outline and then castigates the state for not including more "specifics." Maybe the reviewers at Fordham were unaware that there are only 180 school days in the calendar, and they certainly didn't see the draft with […]
Egypt, interrupted
I have very few words tonight for how things are going in Egypt. From the reports available in the U.S., the hundreds of thousands of protesters have resisted Mubarak's thugs and the temptation to lash out in society-wide violence… thus far. Reporters said the rumors that Mubarak would step down tonight had sustained a jubilant […]
Tyler Cowen and Goldin/Katz
At least briefly today, Paul Krugman turned into a social historian talking about kitchens and mundane life changes. I'd call him out for encroaching on my territory except that Carl Becker would call baloney on me, and I agree with the gist of Krugman's point, which echoes Tyler Cowen's: recent results on productivity and incomes for […]
The necessary luxury?
This is a rambling post I started last year, rambling that reflects the general confusion today about how to explain the value of education and formal schooling. For the record, my answer to the question at the end is yes, but I'm trying to sort out some of the issues here rather than argue for […]
Craftwork academe
Last semester, a doctoral student at USF asked me, what were the methods of historians? I responded by talking in general about the uses of archival materials, publications, oral histories, multimedia, statistical data, all sorts of primary sources … and realized quickly that was not what the student meant or needed. What the student was […]