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 »
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 [...]
Q & A: Michael Staub, Postwar Americanist
Posted in african-americans, Jews, Lazy Scholar Interview, politics, psychology, tagged 1960s, interview, jewish, Judaism, Michael Staub, norman podhoretz, psychiatry, radicalism on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To the Vitamin-D-deprived, Last year, Norman Podhoretz, neocon pioneer and Commentary editor from 1960 to 1995, published the tauntingly titled book Why Are Jews Liberal?. He might have come to different conclusions (or even a subtler question) had he more closely read Michael Staub’s Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar [...]
Q & A: Davarian Baldwin, Race and Urban Studies Scholar
Posted in african-americans, Chicago, Lazy Scholar Interview, leisure on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear sun bathers, Today the Lazy Scholar talks to a decidedly un-lazy historian, Davarian L. Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College. Baldwin’s first book, Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, The Great Migration, and Black Urban Life, published by UNC Press in 2007, offers an inspired look at the labors and [...]
Good Bye, Leaven!
Posted in advertising, african-americans, food, holidays, Jews, religion, video on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To the domestically-inclined, Break out your horseradish everybody! Passover is officially here, bringing with it gefilte fish, chocolate-covered matzo, brisket, and all the other healthy treats you’ve come to associate with the feast of the unleavened bread. In truth, perverse as it might sound, I do look forward to Passover every year, I suppose because [...]
African-American Portraits, Black and White Photographers
Posted in african-americans, photography, visual culture, tagged Black History Month on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear deadline dodgers, Regular readers may have noticed my online output has slowed lately, for which I can only blame the short days, the rainy weather, and that fine art some call “dissertating.” Alas, in my delinquency, I missed a chance to offer a Black History Month missive—so I hope you’ll accept this belated attempt. [...]
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