Hi,
I work for a TV production company in LA and we're teaming up with a network to develop a series about exploring and history.

The
basic premise of the show is this:  A host or team or hosts will
explore different sites around the world and explain why they are
interesting/noteworthy/etc.  There will be an element of exploring as
they wander around ( Read more... )

My school has RefWorks so I've long used that to organize my dissertation and teaching sources (separate accounts). I have a couple of problems with the program, however, and am interested in either having someone better at using RefWorks than I am tell me how to make it work for me, or in getting suggestions on specific programs that might work ( Read more... )

I'm trying to look at textbooks in specific states at specific times - namely, Georgia, Texas, Colorado, Ohio, California, and Massachusetts in the 1980s and 1990s. I know several of these states have a list of books that is determined by the department of education, so theoretically I should be able to find these lists. Does anyone have any idea ( Read more... )

Any recommendations on works that deal with the relationship between courtly love and religious literature in medieval Europe? So far I am looking at material mainly related to either vernacular mysticism like the Beguines or the Arthurian legends. I have all of Barbara Newman's works, some of Peter Dronke's work on medieval love lyrics, and some ( Read more... )

Does anyone else find that the absolute worst part of writing a paper is the citation? I can get into a rhythm when I write, but footnotes break that up. I can write an entire page of text in a few minutes and it will be coherent and even occasionally informative, but making two small footnotes seem like drudgery.

i'm interested in getting a degree in middle eastern studies (focusing in middle eastern history) but i've been told that i should just get a history degree instead and focus in middle eastern history. im aware that in the future (if i should attempt to apply for a tt position in history dept), it might be very difficult for me get accepted. but ( Read more... )

Hello, I have read and heard quite a few times, "don't get into debt going to graduate school". I applied to three graduate programs, have not heard back yet, so I don't know if I will get any assistance. But if I don't get an assistantship, what am I supposed to do? I do want to go to graduate school, even if I get in some debt. What are your ( Read more... )

This is probably a really obvious answer to most, but it's something I've never quite been able to get a handle on. (And I've had different profs give different answers over the years when I have asked previously ( Read more... )

I am considering applying for grad school, with the intent to get a Ph.D. in U.S. history. I have two questions, though, and my Google skills have failed me ( Read more... )

If ever someone asks you what you can do with a degree in history, you can now point them towards this article and say, with a David Caruso-esque attitude, "take down the man."

One of the reasons I love historians (or at least the cool ones)/being one:

Historians Take Stand To Explain The Origins Of Marriage

Today, expert testimony begins in ( Read more... )