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Brooksing No Fools
critiquing the monologues of david brooks. More fantastical pablum disguised as faux-brilliant revelation in David Brooks’s dialogue between Flyover Man and Urban Guy in his column last week (“Why...
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Rovings
october edition. Sounds Bob Dylan, “Tell Me That It Isn’t True” (Take 2), Travelin’ Thru, 1967 – 1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15Tabou Combo, Haiti/Ya Patia (1969)Donovan, “This Is a Mountain”Dandy...
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august edition. Sounds Bruce Molsky, Tony Trischka, and Michael Daves, “The Blackest Crow,” Brooklyn Folk Festival 2019“Living With John Fahey aka A Room Full of Flowers,” Lost Notes, KCRWJenny...
View ArticleEveryone’s a Historian
criticism is history. Literature is the fair flower of culture, but underneath culture are the deeper strata of philosophy, theology, law, statecraft—of ideology and institutionalism—resting finally...
View ArticleBook Review—Thinking the Blues: Voices of Mississippi, Artists and Musicians...
box set as intellectual history. blues as community of discourse. x-posted from US Intellectual History Book Reviews. The reason why it’s here is a bunch of us like blues. We study that. — Gussie...
View ArticleNot Even Past
historicism vs. historical materialism in the niceties @ geva theatre, 02 november 2019. …with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the...
View Article04/03/2019: Digital Cultural History—A Roundtable, OAH Conference,...
six historians explore the links—and tensions—between digital and cultural history. Coming up at the 2020 Organization of American Historians Conference in Washington DC.
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11/14/2019: What is Impeachment? @ SUNY Brockport Student Union
presidents, the press, and professors’ answers to your questions (and free pizza). I’ll be at College at Brockport’s Student Union from 11:15 am-12:15 pm on Tuesday, November 14, alongside Elizabeth...
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What Is Impeachment?
resources for thinking about watergate in the era of trump. for What is Impeachment? @ SUNY Brockport Student Union 114, Tuesday, 14 November 2019. 1. Daniel Bush, “The complete Watergate timeline (it...
View ArticleThat’s Sick
claire bishop on works of art. Works of art are less important as unique entities of individual expression (that model died years ago) than as symptoms of—and at best, commentators on—patterns of...
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november edition. Sounds Marvel’s Wolverine Podcast Dolly Parton’s AmericaAlmeda Riddle, “Black Jack Davey,” Songcatcher II Words Tate Shaw, God Bless the CircuitryMary McCarthy, The Mask of State :...
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Jerry Garcia @ 1962 Winter Berkeley Folk Music Festival
new photos from folkie-beatnik era. As the Berkeley Folk Music Festival’s digital repository begins to go online in beta form, all kinds of amazing items are surfacing from the over 50,000 artifacts....
View ArticleLet’s Abolish Academic Prizes
how prizes do more harm than good in academe. New op-ed: “Let’s Abolish Academic Prizes,” Inside Higher Education, 2 January 2020.
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View ArticleSyllabus: Modern America—Freedom Dreams in a Multiracial Democracy
Spring 2020 @ The College at Brockport, SUNY. Instructor Dr. Michael Kramer Assistant Professor, History Department, College at Brockport, SUNY Office: Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 319 Office hours:...
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Teaching Philosophy
My goal as a teacher is to help students develop skills of analysis and communication grounded in a deeper understanding of the past. I place questions of identity, social position, and power—of race,...
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US History Surveys Modern America: Freedom Dreams and Multiracial Democracy (US History Since 1865)US History Since 1893US History Since 1945US Cultural History, Civil War to the PresentUS...
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Autocuonstrucción
This project, like the house, the books I read, the music I listened to, the films I watched, all those experiences that crisscross the definitively unfinished construction of identity—of a house, I...
View ArticleSyllabus: Digital Methods for Historical Projects: Working @ SUNY Brockport
Spring 2020 @ SUNY Brockport. HST 380 Instructor Dr. Michael Kramer Assistant Professor, History Department, SUNY Brockport Office: Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 319 Office hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays...
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Syllabus: US Popular Music History
Online Course @ SUNY Brockport, Spring 2020. Instructor Dr. Michael Kramer Assistant Professor, History Department, The College at Brockport, SUNY Office: Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 319 Office hours:...
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