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Before there was the Nike ad there was the Edmund Morgan dictum: Stop telling me what other historians have said and tell me what you see. In Common-Place, scholar John Mack Faragher tells us how he learned to just do it...[more]
LFDaily Archive
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LF's roundup of book reviews. See who said what about new titles of interest.
This week: Donald Bogle's Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television
The BiblioFile Archive
Our Three Year Compendium!
For the first time ever, Lingua Franca publishes a three year collection of our exclusive and comprehensive listings of junior hirings.
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Who Got Hired Where
At long last, the definitive guide is here!
Look inside for Lingua Franca's complete listing of Tenurings,
Hirings to Tenure and Junior Hirings from 2000-2001.
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In September 2000, Lingua Franca celebrated ten years of covering the highs and lows of academic life. Take a look into the highlights from our archives:
The Best of Lingua Franca: ten of our favorite articles from our first ten years.
A few of the themes that defined the decade:
* Academic Computing
* Gender & Sexuality
* Labor & Tenure
* Theory and its Discontents
* Post Cold War Politics
More from our archives
The Lingua Franca Timeline: Our Guide to Academia's Past Decade.
* You Must Remember This...
Also:
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The results of our reader poll! "The best academic books of the nineties":
* The Winners
* Selected Reader Responses
* The Nominees
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It Takes a Village Healer: Medical anthropologists suggest an unlikely remedy for Africa's staggering AIDS crisis. Can herbalists and diviner-mediums succeed where Western doctors have failed?
Also:
Hurricane Hugo: University of Chicago president Hugo Sonnenschein insisted on making the Great Books accountable to the bottom line. Was he a sellout or a savior?
Bouncing Off The Walls: Designing a concert hall is no mean feat. But does that make it a science? Acoustics is nothing so exact, say the skeptics.
Contract Sport: Picket line of scrimmage: Nobody doubts that college athletics are big business. Does that make football players university employees?
Invitation to a Beheading: Styron meets Genovese: In each chapter of Novel History, a historian tackles a historical novel, and the novelist has a chance to reply.
Hypotheses: Jim Holt on the virtues of self-delusion.
Breakthrough Books: Five scholars recommend the best recent books about Mortality.
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Lingua Franca's listing of upcoming conferences and events
The Sokal Hoax: an anthology of responses from around the world to the sham
that shook the academy.
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Visit Bookworm, our new set of resources for academic readers and writers.
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