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BP Settlement: Devil’s Bargain?
By Luce Well, the NY Times has an article out about the BP settlement that would get money to fisherman, shrimpers, seafood processors, hotel and restaurant owners based on proximity to the leak;...
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Pigs and (GM-)Plants: German Travels/American Thoughts
By Luce In just a few days I leave Germany and I’m looking forward to finally heading home, though I find it hard to believe that soon I will be starting a semester’s work. Undoubtedly I will miss the...
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Humanities Recap, This Time with Some Weber and Nussbaum
by Luce Sitting in on a couple of Weber lectures these past few weeks has put me in my historical place. An ambivalent mourner of disenchantment, Weber noted in his 1918 lecture “Wissenschaft als...
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Paper Tigers, Social Movements, Memory and Death, the Archive
by Luce The need to put out my hat for change and plea for grant funding has forced my hand: I now have my next summer planned out in more detail than my next week. I am now closer to actually being...
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Are We Experts Yet? Historians on the Street
I am really pleased to be able to introduce a post from the pseudonymous JP Schneider, who in the middle of tapping out his dissertation gives answer to the question: what role can historians hope to...
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Act Like a Scholar? Thinking the Cronon Affair through a Bunch of German...
Bill Cronon by Luce There’s a good round-up of commentary at Cliopatria on the Bill Cronon affair, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison released a packet of his emails a few days ago, exempting a...
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Research Trip: Sketches from Munich
by Luce There is a way one settles into traveling; particularly if traveling alone and in a new city. Small details become important. The patterns of traffic are an object of scrutiny, the manner of...
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Berlin Advisories
Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin by Luce There is a statue on the south side of Volkspark Friedrichshain that I run past nearly every day. It seems to be that of a lunging man with a sword wielded wobbily over...
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Entering Ukraine
by David I thought I knew what to expect. I knew that Ukraine would be less developed than Poland. Still, some experiences early on surprised me. At 9 am yesterday, our driver, Vitali, picked us up in...
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Nazism and Fascism were Ideologies of the Right
by David Adolf Hitler: Not a Socialist Three days ago it was Yom HaShoah, the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s a solemn occasion, one that should not be politicized. On this next day, however,...
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