Author Archives: Adam Arenson
Past Tense Seminar: 2011-12 Dates and 2010-11 Podcasts
The 2011-2012 schedule for the Past Tense seminar is in the works; we have dates, listed below, and we are discussing logistics with our speakers. Our new time is Fridays at noon, so we can have lunch and discuss our … Continue reading
Past Tense April 21: The Journalist as Historian
Please join us for our last event of the academic year on Thursday, April 21, 7:00pm, in the Huntington Library’s Overseers’ Room, for: “The Journalist as Historian” Miriam Pawel spent twenty-five years working for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She … Continue reading
Event: Marcy Norton, “Writing the Longue Durée,” March 22
Please join us on Tuesday, March 22, 7:00pm, in the Huntington Library’s Overseers’ Room, for: “Writing the Longue Durée” Marcy Norton Associate Professor, George Washington University, and Huntington Fellow Please join us! Sacred Gifts-Profane Pleasures selections and Norton-Spain Animals selection … Continue reading
Past Tense at the Huntington Library: Fall and Winter Schedule
In collaboration with the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the USC-Huntington Institute on California and the West, we are happy to announce the fall and winter schedule for the Past Tense seminar. These gatherings focus on the craft of … Continue reading
Sing Your History
I have been riding around with lonely cowboys, energetic flirts, and cynical Brits. I live in Los Angeles now, and so there is always another opportunity to get in your car. Thankfully, there is also a rich mix of radio … Continue reading
History over the Air
How much history do you listen to? What are the best history radio shows and podcasts, after this one? What makes them great? Continue reading
Martha Sandweiss’s Passing Strange: Excellent History at the Edge of Knowability
The first thing to know about Martha Sandweiss’s Passing Strange is that it is gripping. When I first cracked it open, in a Seattle hotel room last March, I found myself one hundred pages in before checking the time. This … Continue reading
OAH Report: Early-Republic Crowdsourcing and Communal Email
What can early American communication networks tell us about the Internet? An OAH 2010 panel recap. Continue reading
"Letters to a Tenured Historian" now available
My Writing of History class is now reading exemplary histories. In historiography-driven courses, so often the new trumps all. But when a course focuses on history writing, there is a fruitful dialogue between new books and old, often with a different … Continue reading
Stephen Pyne’s How-To of History: Thinking, Choosing, Writing
(Apologies to those of you who dutifully waited up Wednesday for this post; it’s that time of semester. But my book manuscript did get finalized as you waited, so it’s a step closer to store shelves!) I was quite impressed … Continue reading
