Category Archives: review
Small World (a boardgame review)
We’re a family of geeks. (Sorry, girls, but that’s how we raised you.) So, when Geek and Sundry rolled out last month, we were hooked. Web series of awesomeness, ahoy! Chief among these is Tabletop masterminded by Wil Wheaton: a … Continue reading
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The Siege of Washington
Even though I’ve been buried so deeply in work that I can barely breathe, I stole some free hours to read this book. Correction: nearly devour. Even though the authors employ an annoying strategy of drawing out the slow, chronological … Continue reading
Review: Regionalism and the Reading Class
I got this book through recent sale held by the University of Chicago Press. While not a work of academic history (my usual term-time fare), I thought it relevant because of my graduate methods course teaching in which I’ve incorporated … Continue reading
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Three Cleopatras
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes me hungry Where most she satisfies. – Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, Scene 2 I’m working my way through three … Continue reading
The Ivory Tower’s Basement (A Female Perspective)
Professor X launched a tidal wave of commentary when he published an essay on his dispiriting adjunct experiences in The Atlantic in 2008. I finally got around to reading the book this month and, for the most part, I found … Continue reading
Well-Behaved Women and History
One of the books that I picked up at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women was Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard faculty member Laurel Thatcher Ulrich‘s Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. Thanks to Random House for making that … Continue reading
