Blog Hiatus

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While we're taking a summer break, have a look at the following HS posts on political history.

Philip White, "Winston Churchill and the New Digital 'Iron Curtain,'" February 21, 2012

Philip White, "TV Debates: Political Discussion or MMA in Suits?" February 1, 2012

Heather Cox Richardson, "Woodrow Wilson Appears Before Congress, April 7, 1913," October 5, 2011

Randall Stephens, "Women's Suffrage at 100," August 12, 2011

Heather Cox Richardson, "Half-Breeds, Stalwarts, and Contingency," June 22, 2011

Randall Stephens, "The Other Side of the 1960s or 'This Is My Country and I Know that I'm RIGHT,'" May 16, 2011

Brief Hiatus this Week

Randall Stephens

In the interests of getting some research and writing done, the blog will take a short break this week.

In the meantime, have a look at some of these posts on grading . . . the favorite pastime of all history profs and GTAs!

"'Will this be on the test?' Rough Seas Ahead," April 30, 2011
Randall Stephens

"Historians Teaching Grammar," February 7, 2011
Heather Cox Richardson

"Where Should the Thesis Go in a College Essay?" March 29, 2011
Jonathan Rees

"The Plagiarism Gamble and Theory of Mind," August 31, 2011
Randall Stephens

"History’s Tests," June 28, 2011
Chris Beneke

End-of-Semester Hiatus: Holiday Edition

Randall Stephens

I'm flying over to Norway today to begin my Fulbright. I hope to post occasional dispatches from the land of the 9:30am sunrise. (I've stocked up on vitamin D.) So, we'll be back up and running as soon as things are settled across the water.

But in the meantime, check out these HS posts and others on Christmas, holidays, and general festivus.

"The Worst Christmas Music," The Onion, AV Staff, December 2, 2011

Historiann, “White Christmas” and A Christmas Story, December 11, 2011

"Yuletide Roundup," December 24, 2010, HS blog

Randall Stephens, "December 31st, 1759: Guinness Inceptum," December 31, 2010, HS blog

Paul Harvey, "Jewish Consumer Rites: Tracing Hanukkah's Roots to Cincinnati and Charleston," December 5, 2010, Religion in American History blog

Randall Stephens, "A Trippy, Merry Christmas" December 24, 2010, Religion in American History blog

"Hannah's Yorkshire Christmas Pie," December 22, 2009, Georgian London