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• The Backwards Survey
  

  Here’s a second concept course, though the idea is neither new nor mine, and maybe it’s not really a concept course if several people have done it. Still, I would really like to try this someday.
  The Backwards Survey
  Every single event is the offspring not of one, but of all other events prior or contemporaneous … […]

• Concept Courses
  

  Last fall, Bill Turkel had a great blog entry calling for “concept projects” in academic history: like concept car prototypes or catwalk fashions, these would be imaginative efforts that need not prove wholly workable or utilitarian, but that might serve to get ideas into circulation, push the boundaries of the form, or, a la Thoreau, […]

• More Matters of Great Historical Import
  

  Peeing dogs, Donkey Kong, lesbians, sitcoms, and gin.

• You Are Number 0110
  

  Spybots invade English village.

• Weighty Historical Matters
  

  Beards, bots, and were they hot?