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Beyond the Bakesale: PTAs, Education Reform, & the Best of UHA 2014, Part 1

Several times a year, the intrepid reporters of Tropics of Meta follow the academic conference beat, checking out […]

125 Years of 4th of July Parades and Liberalism in Maryland’s Takoma Park

“We’re compromised,” an exasperated Julie Boddy told a Washington Post journalist in 2012. As a sitting member of […]

Searching for the New South at the Dallas Flea Market

Several years ago we ran a photo essay about a legendary flea market in Dallas, NC, and the […]

Memorial Day Reveille

We here at ToM hope that your Memorial Day weekend has gone swimmingly.   Over the years, our writers […]

Incubating Scholarship and Smart Students: Teaching and Publishing at Community Colleges amidst the New Realities of Academia: Best of AHA 2014, Part 4

For Part 1 of ToM AHA 2014 coverage: Bed-Stuy, the Illuminati, and the Importance of Fungus Identification – […]

Radical Politics, Disgruntled Veterans, Internment, and the Fear of Dependency: The Military and Social Welfare Reform: Best of AHA 2014, Part 3

Over the past couple of decades, categorizations like “military history” have undergone numerous permutations. Georgia State’s John Southard […]

Transnational Protest, Media Bias, and Monopolized Airwaves: Best of AHA 2014, Part 2

In part II of ToM’s AHA 2014 coverage our correspondents begin with papers on the efforts of Latin […]

Bed-Stuy, the Illuminati, and the Importance of Fungus Identification: Best of AHA 2014, Part 1

Going to conferences is one of the great mixed blessings of the academic life.  On one hand, it […]