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This blog is about my work in history. My research involves war and society in modern Germany, and I am teaching general survey courses in European history.

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• Six Years Ago

  Posted on Tuesday September 11th, 2007 at 14:41 in 9 11, autobiographical, teaching

  Georgetown University in Washington, DC did not cancel classes on September 12th, so I went into a class packed with mainly freshman at 9:15 a.m. By that point teaching early modern European history w...

• Stumbling Upon a Dissertation Topic

  Posted on Sunday September 9th, 2007 at 09:02 in autobiographical, dissertation, general staff, groener, imperial germany, military history, officer corps, sonderweg, world war i

  Historical scholarship can be as much the result of accident as planning. How on earth did I come to write a dissertation on Wilhelm Groener? I thought I liked doing social history, not biography. If ...

• Across Generations

  Posted on Sunday July 22nd, 2007 at 11:07 in autobiographical, generations, historical thinking

  When I went to the student coffee shop on Friday, the student at the cash register guessed my order before I could tell him what I wanted. I remarked that I had had similar experiences with regulars w...

• Paradoxes (Part I)

  Posted on Friday July 20th, 2007 at 19:00 in autobiographical, military history, paradox, war and society

  I was looking through Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Physicists, a play I have used a few times in a survey course on modern Europe. In the back of the English translation by James Kirkup are "21 Poi...