During my classes today, we discussed the Cold War and how the fear that Communism would spread to the US led to an anti-Communist movement in the 1940s and 1950s. I wanted to get my students thinking about loyalty and disloyalty, so I told them that during World War Two, one of the things the [...]
A couple weeks ago, we took up the subject of legalized segregation in the nineteenth-century South. We talked about Jim Crow and how that played out at the time, as well as how the mindset of racism permeated society then and now. We discussed lynching and how it wasn’t just about killing or death, but [...]
I think the hardest thing about writing a dissertation is that it takes so damn long. I know, right? After six and a half years of graduate school, that’s my great revelation: writing a dissertation takes a long time. I’ll be accepting my Nobel Prize any minute now for this great contribution to knowledge. But [...]