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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
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
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
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)
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...
