To those wearing white one week longer, The great Brian Distelberg, a PhD candidate in history at Yale, returns today to these pages. In case you missed it, check out his musings on Connecticut. And check out his own website, where he writes about his research, contemporary politics and culture, and LGBT issues. The Boy [...]
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Boy Scouts in America: Or, Scrutiny in the Archive
Posted in children, LGBT, military, periodicals, tagged boy scouts, boys life, camping, digital books, scouting on September 1, 2010 | 1 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, [...]
Fiddling Pigs and Finely-Dressed Foxes
Posted in books, children, visual culture, tagged animals, books, children, children's literature, University of Florida on October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dear power nappers, On Saturday, David and I headed to the vertical Long Island—that is, New Jersey—to meet my new nephew Sammy, a beautiful little boy who has the eyes of his father (my brother), the ears of his mother, and the sleep patterns of a lazy-scholar-to-be: he spent the majority of our visit napping, waking [...]
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