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Chickens and State Fairs
Dear lethargic readers, It’s one of the regrets of my life thus far that I’ve never been to a county or state fair—to my knowledge, there weren’t many (or any) on Long Island where I grew up. Thanks to...
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The Wonders of Coffee
To students seldom awake before ten, Like many scholars, I’ve relied on coffee as a lifeline for most of my academic career. By senior year of high school, I was already bringing a plastic mug full of...
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A Thanksgiving Feast (of Archives!)
Dear preemptive vacationers, I realize there’s been a lot of food in these dispatches lately, perhaps in subconscious anticipation of Thanksgiving this Thursday. I don’t know about you, but when I...
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Foxy Brown and Aunt Jemima, Exposed
O pioneers of the digital frontier, Anyone who’s watched Spike Lee’s sometimes brilliant, sometimes obvious 2000 film Bamboozled, Ferris State University’s Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia might...
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Better Living Through Canned Meats and Custard
To the seasonally-affective disordered, The spring semester is officially under way, and I’ve started TFing a new class: Joyce Chaplin’s wonderful lecture on American food history. We’re still...
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Good Bye, Leaven!
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...
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Cal Coolidge’s Go Kart and Other Wonders of Western MA
To anyone who’s ever read an academic monograph on the beach, The fiancé and I have relocated to Northampton, Massachusetts for the summer. For the moment, I’m still trying to find my bearings, which...
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Back to the Land, Now and Then
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...
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California Dreaming
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...
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Old News: Ice Cream, Gay Marriage, Stamps!
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...
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