This letter will appear in the October 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine. Signers include Anne Applebaum, Margaret Atwood, David Blight, David Brooks, Noam Chomsky, Gerald Early, David Frum, Francis Fukuyama, Todd Gitlin, Anthony Grafton, David Greenberg, Jonathan Haidt, Michael...
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From the Archives: Messiah College History Department in *The American Scholar*
This post originally ran at The Way of Improvement Leads Home on December 14, 2014–JF Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and James Grossman (American Historical Association), the authors of the “No More Plan B” proposal that challenged graduate programs in history to think about training...
Anthony Grafton: “I never felt I could claim to be a writer…”
Anthony Grafton at Messiah College, Feb 28, 2012 Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education Rachel Toor has published a piece on Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton. The article focuses on Grafton’s approach to teaching writing....
Messiah College History Department in The American Scholar: The Power of Undergraduate Research
Messiah College history students conducting research in a 19th c. cemetery Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and James Grossman (American Historical Association), the authors of the “No More Plan B” proposal that challenged graduate programs in history to think about training Ph.D students for careers...
Life on the Grafton Line
Anthony Grafton If you read The Way of Improvement Leads Home regularly you are probably aware of the Grafton Line. (We covered it here). This new community of writers, inspired by the amazing writing productivity of Princeton history professor Anthony...
Take the Grafton Challenge
Anthony Grafton made some waves in the blogopshere recently when he told Noah Charney of The Daily Beast that he writes 3500 words in a normal morning. Here is a taste of that interview: Describe your morning routine. Absolutely. When...