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...