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Is Written History finite or infinite?
I predict that in the future, Google (or whatever its parent company is called in the year 2525) will sell the entire Gmail database as a source to be mined for historical data. This will of course raise a host of issues concerning privacy, but as long as the search is restricted to a point […]
For students who are waiting for their professors to grade their papers
I am currently experiencing a higher than usual volume of student papers. I will grade your paper in the order in which it was received. Your paper grade is very important to me. You can’t always be experiencing a higher that usual volume…. Yes, I can.
Robert Frost on Grading Student Essays
I believe it was the great Robert Frost, the college history professor who wrote: The pillows are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep, And essays to read before I sleep, And essays to read before I sleep
Book Review: Jim E. Brown, Brown on Brown: The Autobiography of Jim E. Brown; Vol 1: The Early Years (2021)
Jim E. Brown’s new autobiographical memoir, Brown on Brown: The Autobiography of Jim E. Brown; Vol 1: The Early Years (2021), is most definitely a book, in the sense that it contains the minimum number of pages required to be considered such, forty-eight. There is a lot of white space on these pages. One must […]
When Daniel Boone “Cilled” a “Bar”
In a previous post, I presented an example of how a newspaper could provide an “illustration” without using engraved plates. In that case, it was a map of Spain made simply by typing the names of cities in such an order on the page to approximate their actual relative locations. In a 19th century history […]
The Four Stages of Writer’s Block
by Blue, the cat. Make sure you have a writing utensil. Check if it is sharp. Look to the ceiling for inspiration. Look to the table. Now you may start your writer’s block.
“Where did all the Slaves go?”
A Presentation for the Schenectady Historical Society, March 23, 2023.
Michael J Douma 