The gender of early social-science clientele(s)
Some of the discussion on the “Social Reform and Social Science in Chicago and Beyond” panel focused on the relationship between social sciences and social reform movements. Neither Jane Addams nor Myles Horton did their work as disinterested social scientists—far from it. Addams may have been a sort-of-elitist social progressive, but she used city residents […]
Needed: a model of peer-reviewing interactive projects
One of the sessions at the Social Science History Association was organized by several members of the H-Net Council about Web 2.0 and the teaching of history. I was the chair and had a marvelous time listening to others and serving as traffic cop an identifier of speakers. (I also got my two cents’ worth […]
Chicago and social movements: blogging a conference
This weekend I am at the Social Science History Association, and the current session on Chicago and social-science research is one of the sessions that combine a national academic conference with a local context. After all, we’re meeting in Chicago this weekend. The first paper by Victoria Brown was about Jane Addams and is part […]
Squeak if you gave one to/got one from OLPC
I have an agreement with my family: I don’t work on holidays. I can do lots of fun or worthwhile things that are tangentially connected to work, but nothing that really could be considered work for something I am assigned. But I did something a little before 6 am yesterday morning that was both civically […]
Veterans Day
My father was a veteran, the base pediatrician for George AFB in the late 1950s. My maternal grandfather was a veteran, cooking for troops in Europe after the WW1 armistice. I’m not a veteran, and neither are any of my siblings or my cousins. We came of age in Vietnam and then held our breath […]