Overbusy
Sorry for the lack of entries recently—my professional life has just become crazy-busy (and more than usual). I’m keeping my head above water, not a problem with that, but some things will drop off as priorities shift. And I love blogging, but there are only 30 hours in the day. Or something like that.
Why I’m not a member of the American Historical Association and speech codes
Since October 7th’s Cliopatria blog entry by Ralph Luker about the anti-speech-code resolution he and David Beito are sponsoring for January 2007 meeting of the American Historical Association, I’ve been wondering how to respond. It wasn’t about the resolution itself (about which I’ll talk later) but the fact that I haven’t been an AHA member […]
Preview release of Social Explorer
Definitely head over to Social Explorer, a great historical interactive map site from Andy Beveridge and colleagues at Queens College (CUNY). Right now, it’s in preview mode, but if you want to get census-tract-level maps on a whole host of social data, definitely look at it!
Have New Yorkers forgotten their manners?
What is it with academic-freedom news from the Big Apple recently, from the interruption of a speech by a Minuteman founder at Columbia to the cancellation of a speech by Tony Judt at the Polish Consulate? Is there something in the water? I can talk about this because my father was from Brooklyn (Flatbush, in fact) […]
Best-laid plans aft gang agly and other meeting war stories
By Sherman Dorn on October 20, 2006
My semester has gone fairly well thus far with my attempting to spend an hour or two Sunday evening or early Monday getting everything out of my head and then sorting through my several-hundred-item task list for the highest-priority items for the week in various categories. That was one tweak of my internal attempts at […]
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