Month: February 2015

And they are: Jennifer Rosato Perea (Northern Illinois), Cynthia Fountaine (Southern Illinois) and Allison Tirres (DePaul). 

And they are: Jennifer Bard (Texas Tech), Gary Simson (Mercer), Greg Bowman (West Virginia), Robert Ackerman (Wayne State), and Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt).  

Coming very soon to a bookstore near you is Timothy Williams' Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South.  You can read the introduction and part of the first chapter…

Those of you on twitter should feel free to join me tonight as I host a Bioethx chat on Reverse Transplant Tourism. Given that I am a twitter moron, still…

Here's an extremely exciting position -- for two reasons.  First, it reflects the growing interest in digital humanities (back in the day it used to quantitative history -- but this ...

First off, happy Washington's birthday to everyone.  By this time next year I hope that Autumn Barrett and I will have our paper on the Richmond Washington Equine Statue done.…

As many readers know, a working group of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors recommended, last week, that UNC's Center for Poverty, Work and Opportunity - run by…

In 1847, Lincoln spoke at a convention in Chicago that addressed President Polk’s recent veto of an “internal improvements” act.  Like most Democrats at the time, Polk believed that that…

When I have some more time I'm going to comment on this. In the meantime, I have one question: did Patrick Henry actually say in his speech at St. John's…

An article in my SSRN feed caught my eye this week: Where Have All the Patent Lawyers Gone? Long Time Passing... by Kenneth L. Port, Lucas Hjelle, and Molly Rose ...