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America Needs a Definitive History of Dead Kennedys… And Here’s Why It Won’t Happen

  • by Will Greer
  • Posted on July 30, 2018August 23, 2018

I pledge to laugh At the Flag Of the United States of America And to…

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  • historiography

Why Family Separation Goes Against Everything We Know about Migration

  • by lilypearlballoffet
  • Posted on June 20, 2018February 10, 2019

As a scholar of migration, I want to speak to this administration’s current family separation…

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  • Atlanta

The Emergence of Urban Planning in the South, 1880-1930

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on March 26, 2018March 26, 2018

To take a bibliography of southern history on its face, one could conclude that urban…

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  • academia

The Madness of Professors When Final Grades Are In

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on December 15, 2017December 27, 2017

What do you do when all the papers are graded and the final results are…

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  • academia

Let’s Talk about Comps Exams

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on August 22, 2017February 10, 2018

When I read @philommeides_’s tweet about grad-school comps, my heart sank.  The author expressed how…

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  • historiography

A Trip through One Semester of Historical Methods and Theory

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on June 6, 2017February 19, 2019

Here I was, rock you like a hurricane Almost everyone who goes to grad school…

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  • Doomed to Repeat

Introducing Doomed to Repeat, the Podcast with a Toothache in Its Heel

  • by Nick Hoffmann
  • Posted on March 2, 2017December 4, 2017

Listen to episode one, on the promise and pitfalls of school desegregation, here. Why, hello…

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  • Asian American history

7 Books to Make You Grateful for Your Own Family on Thanksgiving

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on November 24, 2016December 4, 2017

Visual media have the advantage of providing quick comfort; if you need a change of…

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