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German Sonderweg
Posted on November 10, 2010 | No CommentsThis is an essay I wrote for a Directed Readings course in Fall 2009, with Marion Deshmukh. The Sonderweg of German History Before 1940s there was a positive Sonderweg thesis... -
Orals Passed!
Posted on October 29, 2010 | 4 CommentsWhew! That was fun. Marion Deschmuk, Dina Copelman, and Sean Takats are great faculty to work with. And I would not have been able to do it without the mentoring... -
Switching topics
Posted on March 2, 2010 | No CommentsI met with my Dissertation adviser last week, and we decided that the topic I had picked really had nothing to do with my dissertation. I don’t know why, but... -
Archival Research
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsSo I finally went to the Library of Congress for actual archival research. They have about ten years worth of the ‘Kosmos’ magazine from 1919-1927 that I will look at... -
The Mystery of Scholarly Articles Revealed
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsIn class last night we discussed what makes up a historical scholarly paper. To jump start our thinking processes and enhance our observation skills, we were to compare two essays,... -
Changing plans already
Posted on February 1, 2010 | No CommentsI needed to rethink my proposal for my paper. The comments I got back were “too vague,” “too broad,” “need focus,” and “what aspect.” Yeah, I knew that already. But... -
Graduate Research Paper
Posted on January 28, 2010 | 3 CommentsNot that I really have time to blog as I do it, but… I feel like I need to do something historical here… So why not. So this is my... -
WTTGG #3
Posted on March 21, 2008 | No CommentsI almost forgot for this week, but found some stuff today, so here goes…. And a small disclaimer, or explanation first. Instead of just making this a list of cool... -
The greatest minds went river boarding.
Posted on November 7, 2007 | No CommentsWhen I was in high school, my friends and I would go down to the Salt River, tie one end of a ski rope to a tree, and the other... -
Nazi board games
Posted on August 24, 2007 | No CommentsAnother rare double-day post. I heard this on a PRI show “The World”. From the site: “The World’s Clark Boyd tells us about an auction taking place tomorrow in Britain....