Ted McCormick
I research, write and teach about the ways people thought about and tried to change society and nature, especially in Britain, Europe, and the Atlantic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I live in Montreal.
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3 February 2023
This post is based on a Twitter thread I started back in 2021 and have expanded since. Its origins are in a sense platform-specific. Twitter discourse is awash in accusations and counteraccusations...
Faculty[,] Don’t Run It Like a Business
30 January 2023
The subtext of nearly every practical discussion about hiring, promotion, or retention in academia — on the faculty side, that is — is that everyone is replaceable. One might say...
19 December 2022
I’m sticking with Twitter for as long as I can for the simple reason that I have a much larger and more varied following there than I can imagine building anywhere else. It’s possible...
2 November 2022
James Sweet is worried about the state of historiography. Beginning in August with an ex cathedra editorial in American historians’ trade magazine, Perspectives, and continuing now...