“What Would Jesus Do?”: A Parable About Copyright
Have you heard the saying “What would Jesus do?” Who hasn’t? In the 1990s the phrase became a fad among evangelical Christians, who printed the … Read this post →
Have you heard the saying “What would Jesus do?” Who hasn’t? In the 1990s the phrase became a fad among evangelical Christians, who printed the … Read this post →
Today the Washington Post ran an article about college professors who ban laptops from their classroom. The article sparked a conversation among the digital humanities … Read this post →
Last weekend I attended a conference at Yale University titled The Past’s Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities. I’m only just … Read this post →
For a long time I’ve looked for a website that could catalog my book collection. I wanted something where I could easily import the books, … Read this post →
A simple hack to make using Zotero easier in class discussions.
The classes that I will be taking for spring semester, 2010.
Anecdotes and observations from a semester researching in the archives.
What are some good examples of the craft of doing biography?
Accounts of scholars from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries often describe the ill effects studying had on their health. Was studying actually unhealthy, or was that a trope?
A chart of the growth of religious history as a subfield in the American Historical Association, with analysis of the data.
A link to a report on the growth of religious history in the American Historical Association membership.
My classes and research for the fall 2009 semester.
How to use tags and saved searches in Zotero to create a work flow of sources for a paper or project.
A suggested reading list for people planning to apply to graduate school in the humanities.
We Choose the Moon is a real-time recreation of the Apollo 11 mission.
How to write book reviews and encyclopedia articles before applying to graduate school.
Announcing a new blog, Religion in America, and describing how I built the site using WordPress.
Our trip from South Carolina to Massachusetts.
These are the questions people ask (or want to ask). So here are the answers.
When I write, I try to divide each piece into its component parts, and concentrate on just one for each draft or pass. I outline, add facts, construct an argument, add style, and revise, revise, revise.
Reflections on working and getting jobs as a humanities graduate student, and why I chose to go to graduate school despite the doomsayers.
Using Zotero swag to make a nameplate for your desk.
I’ve accepted an offer to the PhD program in American history at Brandeis University.
How to turn an Omeka sticker into a fancy nameplate for your desk.
A plug for Academic Earth, a website that makes available “thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars.”