Longtime listeners of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast may remember our interview with historian Erin Bartram in Episode 37: “Should You Go Grad School?” In that episode we discussed Bartram’s February 2018 blog post “The Sublimated Grief of […]
Erin Bartram
Should Historians Judge People by the Standards of Their Time?
I get this all the time: “Let’s not judge slaveholders based on present-day morality because they were products of their time.” Indeed, slaveholders were products of their time. The historian’s primary goal is to try to understand them in context […]
*Contingent Magazine* Celebrates It’s First Birthday
Congratulations to Erin Bartram and her team at Continent Magazine. Here is Colleen Flaherty piece at Inside Higher Ed: Historian Erin Bartram had no plan B when she published her painfully honest “quit lit” essay in early 2018. She was sick of being […]
Introducing *Contingent Magazine*
[vimeo 309247680 w=640 h=360] If you care about history and want to hear from historians working outside of the academic tenure-track, then you should be aware of Contingent Magazine, a new startup from historians Erin Bartram, Bill Black, Emily Esten, and […]