September 30, 2026
Somerset sits between streets and stream valleys, suburb and forest, municipal infrastructure and preserved landscape. A civic history of how geography, planning, accessibility, and everyday movement shape the ways a community learns to share a place.
September 29, 2026
After nearly twenty years away from academic history, a former historian returns to discover that much has been forgotten—but the machinery still works. A visit with some dead Americans, an old mentor, and the emerging discipline of Historianishing.
September 29, 2026
A practical guide to choosing a graduate school based on an underappreciated criterion: the architectural language in which you would someday prefer to experience professional shame. From Lutheran limestone to Yale Gothic, choose carefully.
September 24, 2026
In the early American republic, swallows seemed to vanish each winter—and some observers believed they disappeared underwater. A bird mystery about observation, explanation, and what happens when people see something real but get the story wrong.