In the last several years, questions surrounding monuments that aim to memorialize Confederate-era actors and events have achieved […]
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.
Entrepreneurship was the last thing I expected to do after earning my degree. As a graduate student, I […]
Hope in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances has been a perennial theme in the stories we humans […]
As the notorious commitment-phobe Charles Dickens once said, it was the best of times, it was the worst […]
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “racial inequality in America?” For many, images of the […]
History does not end and it does not stop. Its dark waters flow and can break their banks and drown us in the flood.
Tropics of Meta may be a good, clean, family blog about historiography, but we do occasionally stray into […]