Month: August 2012

So far no takers on either of my two most recent building trivia questions.  The later isn't surprising; that's an absurdly difficult question.  The former, though -- it's a building…

I've been following for quite a while the story of the Bray School in Williamsburg, which in the eighteenth century was founded to provide an education to African American children.…

You all know the drill: What's the building at right, where is it, and why is it important?  This one, I'm predicting, is going to be quite difficult.  So when…

At a youth writing conference recently, a number of participants were bemoaning the lack of teen novels with male protagonists.  It seems that in the wake of Twilight and Hunger…

As I'm working on my essay review of David Rabban's new book I've been reading a bunch of James Coolidge Carter -- and other members of the late nineteenth century…

This just in: George Mason University School of Law may have one or more tenure-track or visiting positions available starting in the fall of 2013. Both beginning and experienced professors…

My colleague Charles Daye and his co-authors, A.T. Panter of UNC, Walter R. Allen of UCLA, and Linda F. Wightman of UNC--Greensboro, have a new study up on ssrn, "Does Race Matter in Educational Diversity? A…

This impressive building was built after the Civil War.  It's on the campus where some of our readers teach, so I'm guessing this isn't going to be too hard.  Where…

Professor Willajeanne F. McLean has been named the interim dean at the University of Connecticut School of Law.  She steps into the position created by Dean Jeremy Paul's move to…

Ron Palillo, the actor who played Arnold Horshack on Welcome Back, Kotter, died today.  He was 63.  He is not the only member of the Sweathogs who passed recently.  Robert…