History versus heritage? Memory versus history? Whose history and why? These questions are currently brewing a controversy at […]
historiography
“Here, and shockingly few other places in this country, men are paid to increase knowledge, to work toward […]
Occasionally, a student asks a question so basic, about a presumption so fundamental to the teaching of history, […]
The past, it seems, keeps getting farther away—or, rather, what passes for a legitimate past does. In the […]
Since electronic computers were declassified at the end of World War II, journalists, social theorists, and ordinary people […]
Historians have always had a tough time writing about media. The danger of technological determinism tends to loom […]
Like so many over the past weeks, I have been following the Dylan Farrow/Woody Allen conflagration that re-exploded […]
Eavesdropping, censorship, recording, and surveillance are weapons of power. The technology of listening in on, ordering, transmitting, and […]