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I was wondering the same thing. Crespare means "to curl" in Italian. So it means... Who will curl the curly? I suspect it's some sort of pun on a well-known Latin phrase, but I have no …

The job ads from 1972 are priceless. This one in particular is like something out of a David Foster Wallace novel: "We may very well have an opening or so for September, 1972. Publications defini…

That really isn't what Kuhn is getting at with the idea of a paradigm shift. It's not an argument based on generational age or demographics, it's more about observational data slowly ac…

http://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/details.cfm?JobCode=1760... This (utterly depressing) academic job ad is, to me, the worst example yet of the trend toward recasting professor…

Claudio Saunt, the historian who wrote the Aeon article above, is quite literally a leading expert on this exact topic (see his book "Black, White and Indian" with Oxford University Press).

It's getting attention in the history community - I found out about it because it was prominently cited in this (unfortunately paywalled) article that just came out in the American Historical Rev…

I love Anthony Grafton! He's basically the last of the 17th century polymathic scholars, which is fitting because that's precisely what he studies. Academics have recently been having a deba…

The French historian Marc Bloch is one of the ones who makes their runner's up list and deserves wider attention. He was shot by the Gestapo in 1944 and along with Fernand Braudel (who was himsel…