Dear weekend awaiters, This is the second installment of a new Lazy Scholar feature, pairing news items with historical archives. • Slate‘s TV Club is diligently following and debating the new season of Mad Men. If you haven’t watched (is that possible?), it’s a 60s scholar’s dream, with carefully reconstructed interior design, fashion, and, yes, [...]
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Old News: Advertising, Globetrotting, Fishing
Posted in advertising, african-americans, periodicals, photography, television, tagged advertising, eat pray love, louisa may alcott, mad men, northampton, oil spill, Smith College on August 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Q & A: Nicholas Syrett, Historian of Gender and Sexuality
Posted in children, college, Lazy Scholar Interview, tagged college, Erving Goffman, fraternities, masculinity, Nicholas Syrett, Peter Cameron on August 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Panama-Hat-sporting summerers, Most of what I knew about fraternities I learned from watching Animal House and Old School. Until, that is, I read The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities by Nicholas Syrett, assistant professor of history at University of Northern Colorado . Published in 2009 by UNC Press, Syrett’s lucid, [...]
Old News: Ice Cream, Gay Marriage, Stamps!
Posted in african-americans, food, photography, radio, tagged farm security administration, gay marriage, ice cream, postal service, radio, stamps on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear regular readers, Today the Lazy Scholar is experimenting with a new feature called Old News, in which current news items are paired with archival finds. Let me know if you like it! • The New York Times ran a taste-test of strawberry ice cream, only to find that the not-so-local, not-so-artisinal Häagen-Dazs variety beat [...]
California Dreaming
Posted in food, leisure, periodicals, poetry, tagged California, cooking, magazines, sunset magazine, vintage magazines on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear obsessive Netflix queue updaters, I went to San Francisco last week to do some research at a couple of non-digital archives—you know, the kind with actual, physical papers and books—but spent much of my time wondering what my life would be like on the west coast. Would I indulge in olive oil ice cream [...]
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