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Sorry for the long absence. As previously noted, I passed my qualifying exams, thereby moving past the stage of general knowledge and into the rarified air of shit-nobody-but-me-cares-about. More in… more →
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Generalities
Geschichte Grad wrote 5 months ago: Sorry for the long absence. As previously noted, I passed my qualifying exams, thereby moving past … more →
Dry Run Qualifying Exam Answers
Geschichte Grad wrote 7 months ago: I did a mock qualifying exam session: four hours, three questions. The results are below. And I pr … more →
Outlining: Cold War Foreign Policy Cold War Domestic Politics?
Geschichte Grad wrote 7 months ago: The puzzle here is figuring out how to reconcile two facts: (1) all of the examples of how Americans … more →
Outlining: New Right b/c of grassroots or national political leaders?
Geschichte Grad wrote 7 months ago: Thesis: National conservative leaders capitalized on conservative grassroots movements that formed o … more →
Outlining: Was the Cold War inevitable?
Geschichte Grad wrote 7 months ago: Inevitable 1. The “Nature” of the Soviet Union (Gaddis) >> Ideology: Marxism-Leninism view of … more →
Outlining Exams: The New Deal: Revolution, Reform, or Retrenchment?
Geschichte Grad wrote 7 months ago: All three. Check it: Thesis: The New Deal was an immediately experience revolution that grew into re … more →
Outlining: What blend of anxiety and idealism drove the Progressive Movement?
Geschichte Grad wrote 7 months ago: In a previous post, I suggested some qualifying exam questions in U.S. History. This is the first i … more →
20th Century Preliminary Exam Questions
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Geschichte Grad wrote 8 months ago: I’ve been brainstorming questions that I’d like to be asked for my exams (t-minus 45 day … more →
The Bench Responds: Cold War Paranoia and Race
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Geschichte Grad wrote 8 months ago: Zunguzungu asks: Anything interesting to say about the relationship between cold war paranoia and ra … more →
Ask the Bench: World War II and the Aftermath
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Geschichte Grad wrote 8 months ago: This week’s readings below. Hit me. Kennedy, David. Freedom From Fear. Brinkley, Alan. The En … more →
Ask The Bench: The Great Depression and the New Deal
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Geschichte Grad wrote 8 months ago: New preliminary exam prep strategy: I tell you what I’m reading, you ask me questions for whic … more →
Dreaming of Worster
Geschichte Grad wrote 8 months ago: Last night I dreamt that I had been asked to write a response to Donald Worster. To what I was to r … more →
Progressives: Nice People
Geschichte Grad wrote 8 months ago: Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been reading/thinking/teaching a lot about the Progressive … more →
Back to It
Geschichte Grad wrote 8 months ago: “It” being blogging. About preliminary exams, especially, which are coming up in t-minus … more →
1978: Born at the (New) Right Time*
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Geschichte Grad wrote 1 year ago: About a month ago, The Washington Post published an opinion piece by Kenneth Baer (former Gore speec … more →
Prelim Readings: What A New Deal!
Geschichte Grad wrote 1 year ago: It was a New Deal weekend here on the Bench, and I got through nine books. Too bad I’m now tw … more →
Prelim Readings: Hurtling Into Depression
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Geschichte Grad wrote 1 year ago: I hit three books and three articles yesterday: John Milton Cooper, Pivotal Decades: The United Stat … more →
Today's Reading: Fin de siècle America
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Geschichte Grad wrote 1 year ago: Check it: I’m a French-using snob. Anyway, I’ve been plotting out my prelim reading (hol … more →
