Tufts University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences recently blogged some advice for first year graduate students. While I’ve blogged on this topic before (here and here), I wanted to add some thoughts. I’ll break it down by section. Section 1: Get A Head Start (You’ll Thank Yourself Later) I tend to procrastinate. Ok, I [...]
Archive | July, 2012
Dark Side of the City
by Brian Sarnacki on July 20, 2012 in Teaching
Course Description This class explores the urban underworld of North America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through the examination of primary and secondary sources, including articles, books, films, and websites, students will seek to understand how underworld activities like organized crime, gambling, prostitution, and murder shaped conceptions of race, class, and gender. The course [...]
US Before 1877
by Brian Sarnacki on July 20, 2012 in Teaching
Course Description This course is a survey of some of the main themes and events of American history occurring before 1877. We will cover many topics, focusing particularly on the themes of race, expansion, and war. We will explore the changes in society, conflicts, and implications of historical events from the first Europeans setting foot [...]
The Myth of Academia
by Brian Sarnacki on July 18, 2012 in Academia
Academia’s great. It’s a job where you get to do something about which you are passionate, read/write/think for a living, and have a flexible schedule. And if all else fails, it beats working in an office, right? Well, sorta. Let’s break it down: You get to do something about which you are passionate: Not all [...]
Single Life and Marriage in the 20th Century
by Brian Sarnacki on July 18, 2012 in Teaching
Course Description This class explores how social expectations of both married and single men and women changed throughout the twentieth century. Gender roles, economic independence, and conceptions of marriage, sexuality and proper behavior were only some of the social norms affected by the century’s sexual revolutions and movements. Students will engage with a wide variety [...]
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
by Brian Sarnacki on July 18, 2012 in Teaching
Course Description The decades just before and after the turn of the twentieth century were ones marked by rapid social, political, economic, and technological change. These years, which historians now call the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, saw the development of a modern America. If the twentieth century would become the “American Century” then the [...]
US after 1877
by Brian Sarnacki on July 17, 2012 in Teaching
Course Description This course is a survey of some of the main themes and events of American history since 1877. We will cover many topics, focusing on the themes of race, class, and empire. We will explore the changes in society, conflicts, and implications of historical events throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We [...]
Invest in Art
by Brian Sarnacki on July 15, 2012 in Urban
The Lincoln Journal Star is reporting today the Lincoln Partners for Public Art Development wants to turn Lincoln into a center for world class public art. First of all, I love the idea. Lincoln has a solid foundation of art from which it can build, including UNL’s Philip Johnson-designed Sheldon Museum of Art. And public [...]
Kickstarter
by Brian Sarnacki on July 13, 2012 in Academia, Digital Humanities
Every couple of months it seems that one of my friends teases me about one of my first blog posts [re-posted here]. I’ll admit liking Pomplamoose is pretty hipster, but hey I like the music. I also really like their success in going around the traditional gatekeepers of the music industry. They first gained success [...]
The Promise of Digital History and Pomplamoose
by Brian Sarnacki on July 13, 2012 in Digital Humanities
[Posted mostly the same as the original at briansarnacki.wordpress.com on January 21, 2011] Since I want to blog on digital history and the digital humanities, I felt compelled to begin with some sort of introduction to/promise and perils of digital history post, but there are so many gooddefinitions for and introductions to digitial history and [...]
