These brief memos, written for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, discuss the writing of “Desert, Storm,” which the Center supported. They provide an overview of the essay, review the research process, and discusses reasons why the story may have remained largely unknown until now.
Amerasia Journal 42:3 (2016) This short historiographic essay, part of a roundtable on the history of Pacific empires, describes three broadly-defined approaches to Pacific history: critical empire histories focusing on the Pacific as a space of European, US and Japanese military, colonial and commercial projection and inter-imperial war; indigenist histories …
KCRW, Hosted by Madeleine Brand Feb. 10, 2016 If John Kasich won by coming in second place last night in New Hampshire, then Donald Trump really won when he took the top spot with Republican voters. He kicked off his victory speech with what is by now a familiar slogan: “Make America …
A brief interview of contemporary U.S. immigration politics in historical perspective.
This 50-minute lecture presents some ways to approach and participate in graduate and departmental seminars, including how to prepare for them, when and how to jump in, and approaches to asking questions.
This 45-minute talk explores the basics of academic journal publishing in history: the reasons why one publishes journal articles; deciding what to submit; selecting a journal; preparing a manuscript for submission; navigating peer review; and making the best use of criticism.
This 70-minute talk to graduate students suggests ways to go about selecting a problem to work on for one’s dissertation, including tools for identifying one’s interests, questions to ask (and not ask) of a potential topic, negotiating professional pressures, the proper role of advisors and the function of the prospectus.
This essay summarizes the methodological approach and themes of The Blood of Government. Beginning with a critique of conventional, “export” models of transnational cultural history, it provides a definition of “transnational” history and employs this technique to illuminate Philippine-American colonial encounters of the early 20th century through changing racial discourses constructed …
NPR, January 29, 2015 Guantanamo Bay is home to the United States’ oldest overseas base. And since it was established in 1903, the base has been a bone of contention in U.S. and Cuban relations. Melissa Block talks to Vanderbilt History professor Paul Kramer.
The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2015) This essay argues for an imperial lens onto migration history by focusing on “civilized” exemptions to anti-Chinese barriers in the late 19th and early 20th century. U. S. exporters, missionaries and diplomats opposed totalized Chinese exclusion and lobbied successfully for …
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