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What an interesting and thought provoking essay! As you pointed out, the fetish-like treatment of numbers among the baseball intelligentsia has squeezed out the sort of humanistic analysis that you highlighted. I agree with your claim that the study…
Here's my reflection on all the awesome work I did, which I appropriately titled "My Awesome Work." As I say in my reflection, I wasn't so sure what I was getting myself in for with this class, but it turned out really fun and interesting. I think I…
Heading out to the Picasso exhibit, I was somewhat apprehensive. Modernism and Cubism and all the 20th century movements in art tend not to do much for me, with their preoccupation with abstraction and shape, rather than narrative. I was also a bit…
Walking around the Court of North Carolina, Cliff and I were struck by the paucity of seating opportunities along the south side of the space. There was but one bench, situated in a poorly drained spot next to a ventilation system exhaust. It looked…
When I entered the MAT program at NCSU and started looking at history courses to take, I soon decided that I wanted to take a course on the colonial history of America, mostly to add some breadth to my European-oriented knowledge base, as I had last…
Reading about attempts to convey history in spatial terms, I was reminded of http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/" target="_blank">this map, which I had come across some time ago. It illustrates the progression of job gains and losses…
I do not remember Hollywood movies being used very often as a teaching tool when I was a student. Generally, if we were watching a movie, it was because half the teachers had been snowed in in Westchester and we were being herded into the auditorium…
Cool. I never played that particular game, but I did play the original colonization back in my youth. van der Donck didn't make that version. I think the main Dutch guy was Michiel de Ruyter.
Good post and quite on an interesting historical figure. It's telling that van der Donck seems to remain somewhat obscure. Perhaps there is a Dutch bias at work??
I Googled "Laurascudder" and found a lot on the Laura Scudder potato chip maker. Wond…
Very interesting review. I am inserting the image of Luther you mentioned above. It certainly makes for an interesting contrast. I suspect our modern day view of Luther is very much wrapped up in one's personal religious experience. The reading of t…
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What I think I'll take away from this course, more than anything else, is a willingness (indeed, an eagerness) to seek out and engage sources beyond the book. I have always been a book-based organism, which certainly contributed to my passion for history, perhaps the most book-bound of disciplines. In a lot of ways, this course took me out of my comfort zone, taking the focus away from the written word or the printed page and placing it on images, on interactive technologies, on audio content. I… Continue
Posted on December 18, 2009 at 12:26am —
Buy Me Some Peanuts And Cracker Jack And Soda Bread And Bratwurst And Calzones And Pierogies
When presented with the task of integrating an interest of mine into a Social Studies Tangent, it wasn't very hard for me to decide that I had to go with baseball. I am a tremendous baseball nerd. I check five or six baseball websites every day when I wake up and I recheck most of them throughout the day. I have, literally, tens of thousands of posts on a baseball website. I must admit I may even have checked a score once or twice in class when the Yankees were playing the Angels in an early pla… Continue
Posted on December 18, 2009 at 12:26am — 1 Comment
Lights, Camera, Frost/Nixon
The two main blind spots in my knowledge of history are American politics and the twentieth century, and twentieth century American politics (as a matter of historical study) might be my blindest spot of all. I generally feel like these are still so wrapped up and entangled with current politics that it's difficult to have the sort of distance and perspective that I prefer to bring to an historical inquiry. All history matters to me, but American politics, especially recent American politics, ca… Continue
Posted on December 17, 2009 at 10:53pm —
Text Without Meaning
Heading out to the Picasso exhibit, I was somewhat apprehensive. Modernism and Cubism and all the 20th century movements in art tend not to do much for me, with their preoccupation with abstraction and shape, rather than narrative. I was also a bit leery of the poetic angle to the exhibition; I'm not really a poetry guy either, as I find the form to often be excessively elliptical. And, while there was certainly plenty of unsettling Cubist art and incomprehensible poetry (Picasso's own poetry wa… Continue
Posted on November 30, 2009 at 5:06pm —
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