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, [...]
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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 »
Divided States #3: Connecticut Connections
Posted in cities, college, Divided States, periodicals, photography, tagged colt, connecticut, history, new haven, urban renewal on July 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Many who like procrastination like this blog, Today’s post, number three in the Lazy Scholar’s ongoing Divided States project, comes to you from Brian Distelberg, a historian of twentieth-century U.S. culture and politics and a PhD candidate at Yale. I first encountered Distelberg’s work in the most recent issue of GLQ, featuring his rich and [...]
Yale Radicals, Juvenile Offenders, and Henry Miller’s Bathroom
Posted in books, college, film, politics, technology, television, video, tagged henry miller, sixties on February 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Dear viewers like you, The website Snagfilms usually gets pegged as “Hulu for documentaries”—a pretty generous comparison when I think about how many episodes of 30 Rock I’ve watched on our Mac. But while Hulu gives a chance for major TV networks to distribute shows both popular and flagging, Snagfilms shines its spotlight on filmmakers with [...]