Here is Mary R.S. Bracy‘s latest post from the Organization of American Historians meeting in Sacramento. Click here for Mary’s previous OAH post: “She Persisted: A New Assistant Professor Tells Her Story.” Enjoy! As is usually the case when I...
graduate students
The American Historical Association is Looking for Summer Bloggers
Here’s the skinny: The AHA is seeking two aspiring graduate-student bloggers, each to write a series of posts on historical documents from their research projects. If you are looking to hone your blogging skills and share the process of doing...
Applying to Graduate School in History: A Guide and Timeline
Yesterday we did a post on choosing a public history graduate program. Today I want to call your attention to Michael Hattem‘s excellent “Applying to Graduate School: A Guide and Timeline.” Hattem is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Yale...
How to Interview for a Job at a Church-Related College or University
On Saturday, I wrote a post about interviewing for jobs in history departments at teaching colleges. Today I offer some tips about interviewing for a teaching job at a church-related college or university. These also come from an Inside Higher Education...
How to Interview for a Job in a History Department at a Teaching College
A few years ago I wrote this piece at Inside Higher Ed. Perhaps some of my thoughts here might prove useful to graduate students and others preparing for interviews at the upcoming American Historical Association meeting in Atlanta. Here is a...
Andrew Henry on Blogging and Graduate Students
Andrew Henry is a Ph.D candidate in Religious Studies at Boston University. He is a scholar of Late Antiquity and the host and creator of Religion for Breakfast. Follow him @andrewmarkhenry. Andrew is covering the annual meeting of the American Academy...
Why the Ph.D is Killing History
Robert Zaretsky, a history professor at the University of Houston, joins the chorus of historians lamenting the way Ph.D students are trained. Here is a taste of his essay at The Chronicle of Higher Education: “The Future of History.”…Consider the […]
The Real Life of a Ph.D Student
The Guardian has posted some entertaining and informative pictures of life as a graduate student. Some of these do not paint a very flattering picture of graduate school life. The picture on the left is described as “17th-century economic history...
50 Key Thinkers in History
Are you starting graduate school in the Fall and want to get caught up on the latest theory in historical studies? Over at the blog of the Historical Society, Heather Cox Richardson suggests that you check out Marnie Hughes-Warrington’s book […]
A Digital Analysis of Sermons Preached After Lincoln’s Assassination
This is very cool. A group of Emory University graduate students are using digital tools to map geographic and thematic patterns in sermons preached after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The project is called Lincoln’s Logarithms: Finding Meaning in Sermons and it […]
Do You Have an “On Campus Visit?”
I hope that many of my readers on the academic job market get calls this week inviting them for an “on campus” interview. Over at gradhacker, Julie Platt has some good advice for those who will be traveling to colleges […]
Dispatches from the AHA in New Orleans (6)
Mary Sanders reflects on Day Two at the AHA–JF So much has happened today that I’ve been puzzling how best to approach it. I want to spend the bulk of today’s post talking about William Cronon’s remarkable presidential address, emphasizing...
Bernard Bailyn: The Best Books on Atlantic History
Over at The Browser, Bailyn introduces us to Atlantic History by recommending five books on the subject. He picks two of his own books, but we will give him a pass since he is, after all, Bernard Bailyn. Bernard Bailyn, […]
Do You Want to Work in a National Park?
If so, then you should consider for applying for Park Break: “a unique learning fellowship for graduate students contemplating a career working in parks, protecting areas, or cultural sites.” This looks like a phenomenal program. It is an all-expense paid...