Long before it was fashionable, Bloomer pioneered what would later be dubbed "respectability politics" The post Dressed for Reform appeared first on CONTINGENT.| CONTINGENT
A visit to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The post Postcard from a Southerner in Harlem appeared first on CONTINGENT.| CONTINGENT
the intelligence individuals are less James Bond and George Smiley than bureaucrats| CONTINGENT
Dead for centuries, the bees can help save their living descendants| CONTINGENT
though in an idyllic setting, I was poised above a mass grave. The post The Shamrock and the Sham appeared first on CONTINGENT.| CONTINGENT
myths fed back as stereotypes and strawmen to divine some boundary for acceptability| CONTINGENT
The archive my colleagues and I have built and maintained since 2012 is inaccessible. The post The Losses: The History of Genomics Program appeared first on CONTINGENT.| CONTINGENT
A destroyed car at the entrance is hardly a sign that the archive is near.| CONTINGENT
When I tell people I'm a consulting public historian, this is how they respond.| CONTINGENT
