Wrapped up in books.
Posting here has obviously been sparse lately. While this space is hardly going dark [Imagine the thought of me ever shutting up!], I can now tell you why the frequency…
“[E]ntertaining, well-narrated and well-researched”
The Business History Review review of Refrigeration Nation has arrived (subs. req.). Here's my favorite part: "In foregrounding cold chains, Rees has written an entertaining, well-narrated, and well-researched book about…
“I want to break free.”
So apparently I've driven Michael Feldstein to drink. I, for one, think the quality of his post is worth the cost (but then again it's not my liver that's involved).…
LMS = AOL.
Who remembers America Online? No, I don't mean the nondescript media company that's still barely around today. I'm talking about the dominant player in dial-up Internet way back in the…
In which I compare academia to the Hotel California…
"We are all just prisoners here, of our own device."
“They’re back.”: MOOCs II (the sequel).
So MOOCs are back in the news. What's that you say? You thought they were dead? Try undead. Jeff Selingo digs them up with an excerpt from his new e-book…
We’re History.
We're History is basically the successor site to the dearly departed blog of the Historical Society. However, Heather Cox Richardson (who is not the only mastermind of this thing, but…
Yeah, that’s going on the back cover of the paperback edition.
"On the whole, this is a smart and illuminating book that will be of great interest to anyone engaged with either the history of technology or the history of food."…
How long will your course remain yours?
I am a fundamentally lazy person. That's a heckuva thing to admit in public, but really all it means is that if I don't like what I'm working on I…
The three-ring circus teaching paradigm.
I was a Reclaim Hosting devotee before I ever opened the account there that currently hosts this blog. The amazingly, revolutionary idea of faculty AND students maintain domains of their…
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