I recently finished Peter Heather’s (2006) The Fall of the Roman Empire. This popular, though no less rigorous, history is widely praised. The narrative …

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Given a wretched experience with using Microsoft Word for my Masters thesis 10 years ago, I decided to try LaTeX this time around. One might …

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Recently two short essays, which started out as blog entries here, have been published in collections that might be of interest to readers. In Re-public …

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Longtime readers will know I’ve been frequently frustrated and puzzled by NYU’s infrastructural choices. When I first arrived I learned they used my …

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Yesterday’s New York Times reported on another case of high profile plagiarism: a relatively young professor who had copied parts of her dissertation from …

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Last week I read a provocative paper by Helen Nissenbaum (2002) where she considers the norms, values, and ends previously served by the convention of …

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The Blogosphere has been abuzz about a history department’s policy restricting students from citing Wikipedia. I’m not fond of this position, as I …

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I’m presently cursing whoever changed the configuration/names of Wikipedia lists. Identifying emails in archives is sadly a difficult problem, it really need not …

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I have just completed revising the syllabus for of course I will be again teaching in the spring of 2007: Understanding how we understand: technological …

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I’m sharing this note from the beginning of my dissertation so others working with online resources might comment.

The type and number of bibliographic …

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