In April 2010 I organized “Pastplay” (or “Playing with Technology in History”, as we called it before Bethany Nowviskie came up with a much better name), with the financial support of the The History Education Network / Histoire et éducation en réseau (THEN/HiER). It was the most rewarding two days of my career. Much of [...]
Thanks to Bethany Nowviskie (@nowviskie), I just read “No More Plan B – A Very Modest Proposal for Graduate Programs in History”, by Anthony Grafton, the president of the American Historical Association, and Jim Grossman, the AHA’s executive director. In a nutshell, Grafton and Grossman encourage us to get beyond the post-PhD binary of “tenure [...]
