As promised earlier, here is the syllabus for my course Lying About the Past, the second iteration of the course. This year, of course, there will be no historical hoaxes having anything to do with pirates, that one having already been done. The prior version of the course continues to generate comment, a fact (not…
Shaving Years Off the PhD in History
For years historians have wrung their hands about how long it is taking our doctoral students to complete their PhD degree. Six years? Seven? Eight? More? In fact, a 2008 report by the American Historical Association indicates that eight years is the average, with the range being 4-11 years to complete a PhD in history. The…
Stanley Winters and Me
Earlier this year the great historian Stanley B. Winters died after a long and distinguished career, that included service in the American Third Army as it swept into Czechoslovakia in the last weeks of World War II, then a long career teaching history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and along the way the…
THATCamp Switzerland (Concluding Remarks)
THATCamp Switzerland is now over and everyone has dispersed to their various ends of the earth, which in my case means a flight out of Geneva tomorrow morning. My impression was that the experience was a good one for those in attendance. I certainly got plenty of positive feedback. Of course, one rarely hears the…