In the last several years, questions surrounding monuments that aim to memorialize Confederate-era actors and…
It’s that time of year when people in the world of academia remember what the word “anticlimactic” really means. All this building tension over the course of the semester, and then when it reaches its seeming crescendo in early December — splat.
Hope in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances has been a perennial theme in the…
As the notorious commitment-phobe Charles Dickens once said, it was the best of times, it…
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “racial inequality in America?” For many,…
Tropics of Meta may be a good, clean, family blog about historiography, but we do…
No real best-of this week. Instead, we at Tropics of Meta are taking stock of…
The student: Since the beginning of time, man has reached for greater heights. The talking…
