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 »
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 »
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Back to the Land, Now and Then
Posted in commerce, environment, food, periodicals, technology, tagged Beekman Boys, environmentalist, farming, green movement, Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Foods on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
To the chronically tired, While I may be lazy in my scholarship, let it never be said I’m a stranger to physical labor. On Monday, I started volunteering one morning a week at a local farm here in Northampton. As promised, the work was not glamorous—weeding, weeding, and more weeding—but it was surprisingly satisfying. As [...]
An Archival Pride Parade
Posted in film, LGBT, periodicals, politics, video, tagged gay, gay history, LGBT pride, pride parade on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear air conditioner enthusiasts, You may have heard that June is LGBT Pride Month in these United States, marked by rainbow-banner parades in cities across the country. Boston’s passed a few Saturdays ago (favorite sign: “gender is a drag,” courtesy of a Traniwreck marcher), but I’ll confess, the parade that still means the most to [...]
Music Mags From the Age of Implosion
Posted in music, periodicals, tagged crawdaddy, creem on April 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Dear iTunes addicts, Today’s post comes to you courtesy of Jack Hamilton, a fellow PhD student in Harvard’s American Civilization program. He is currently at work on his dissertation titled ‘Rubber Souls’: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, 1963-1971. Before coming to Harvard, Jack was a contributor to Rolling Stone and Paper, among other [...]
Easter Bunny Blues
Posted in holidays, periodicals, religion, visual culture, tagged easter on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To the holiday-cheerful, Today’s post comes to you from a very special guest, someone who can speak with far more authority about Easter than I ever could (and far more irony than I would ever dare), Mollie Wilson O’Reilly. Mollie is an associate editor of Commonweal Magazine, and blogs at Restricted View. You may have [...]
Trick-or-Treaters and Headless Horsemen
Posted in books, cartoons, musicals, periodicals, photography, visual culture, tagged halloween on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear idling experts, I’ve lived in Massachusetts for three Halloweens now, counting tomorrow, but I’ve yet to trek to Salem for their ghoulish festivities. From what I hear, they’re a real hoot—if by hoot, you mean a gross misappropriation of the past. Why worry about Puritans persecuting each other when you can visit a psychic [...]
Board Games of Life
Posted in advertising, domesticity, fun, periodicals, tagged board games, children, cities, Life magazine, race, toys on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear La-Z-Boy loungers, I don’t know about you, but I vastly preferred board games as a child over the more dangerous (and potentially embarrassing) pursuits of the athletics field. Still I can’t help but think all of those hours spent on the living room rug must have prepared me in some way for adulthood. “Monopoly” [...]
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