Archive for April, 2009
Blogging the AAHM Part I: Sigerist Circle
This is my first post on this past weekend’s AAHM meeting, and I’m starting with the pre-meeting of the Sigerist Circle. The topic of this year was the PBS documentary, “Forgotten Ellis Island.” This is a very engaging documentary and I intend to use it when I teach my history of medicine/public health course in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )That ’70s Flu, or Knitting Clio’s Memories of the Ford Administration
As one might expect, the hot topic of conversation at this weekend’s meeting of the AAHM was the current swine flu epidemic. As I watched CNN and read newspaper reports, my mind went back not to the 1918-19 epidemic, but the Ford administration. At that time, President Ford was ridiculed for mobilizing a nationwide effort [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Happy 250th Birthday Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
I’m back from the AAHM meeting in Cleveland, so am too lazy busy to write a full post (but I will try to give some highlights of the meeting later this week. Briefly, swine flu was a major topic of conversation). Meanwhile, enjoy this guest post on Wollstonecraft at Historiann.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Concealed Carry Supporters are not “nuts”
According to a report in Inside Higher Education that legislation in Missouri and Texas that would allow students to carry concealed weapons on college and university campuses. Meanwhile, students on my campus and at UConn are joining nationwide “empty holster” protests. I share the same concerns raised here and here, yet I’m just as disturbed [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Top Ten Trivia Tips About Knitting Clio
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Knitting Clio!
The international dialling code for Knitting Clio is 672.
Bananas don’t grow on trees – they grow on Knitting Clio.
Knitting Clio has four noses!
The porpoise is second to Knitting Clio as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
Knitting Clio can only be destroyed by intense heat, and is impermeable even [...]
My publisher is going digital
I’m a bit slow in getting around to writing about this, but last month the University of Michigan Press announced that it would shift it’s emphasis towards digital publishing, at least for monographs.
I’m not as alarmed by this as some (after all, I teach digital history), but am concerned about what will happen to the [...]
Post Easter discussion on American Women’s Catholic History
Since I’m too lazy busy to come up with a blog post of my own right now, I’ll refer KC readers to a fascinating discussion over at Historiann. I commented on the issue of anti-Catholicism in the academy. Having spent most of my life in New England, and my entire career teaching at a state [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Sunday Sermon, Women’s History Style
Today at Trinity Collinsville we had a guest sermon by our bishop suffragan, the Rt. Rev. Laura Ahrens [the audio file of the sermon should be up in a few days). She started the sermon by talking about the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911, the worst industrial disaster in U.S. history up that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )History Matters: Final Installment
The final installment of the discussion of History Matters featuring a reply by author Judith Bennett. Now that I’ve (finally) finished the book I’ll admit I was a bit hasty in making my “golden age” comment. Still, my overall reaction to the book was rather “meh.” I learned a lot about medieval women’s history, but I [...]
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