Allow me to introduce 1692 in America. This is a project I’ve been working on for a while that will continue for the rest of the year. It’s a day-by-day account of some important events that happened in 1692, described in blog posts on the equivalent dates in 2008. Since today is April 4, which in 1692 was the Gregorian date of the civil new year, March 25, in England and its colonies, this seemed like a good time to unveil it. Take a look and see what you think.
April 4, 2008
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Very neat idea. Consider it bookmarked.
Comment by Stanley — April 4, 2008 @ 12:15 pm |
You’re a bad-ass.
Comment by mrh — April 4, 2008 @ 3:11 pm |
Holy shit. I love it. This is fantastic.
Comment by jms — April 4, 2008 @ 3:14 pm |
This is just an attempt to make Ari wild with desire, isn’t it?
Comment by ben wolfson — April 5, 2008 @ 1:13 pm |
Yes, but he seems to be too busy ranting about MLK to notice.
Comment by teofilo — April 5, 2008 @ 2:33 pm |
I was just thinking that a grad student in history probably wouldn’t make a blog like that. (But I’m probably wrong.)
Comment by eb — April 5, 2008 @ 10:34 pm |
I think the fact that I’m not a grad student in history makes it a lot easier for me to do something like this, actually.
Comment by teofilo — April 6, 2008 @ 1:24 pm |
You’re probably right; while I’m actually liking my work again, I liked philosophy a lot more when it was something that I did on the side. This is not an uncommon sentiment among graduate students of my acquaintance.
Why’d you pick 1692? The NM events?
Comment by Cala — April 7, 2008 @ 7:49 am |
The realization that the reconquest of NM and the Salem witch trials both happened then was the initial impetus, and things sort of went from there. I’ve posted a fuller answer to the same question by Dave Mazzella in comments to the About page.
Comment by teofilo — April 7, 2008 @ 11:15 am |
Really interesting project – thanks for the sidebar link, I’ve returned the favour and when I get a chance to dig into the blog in more depth, I’ll do a more detailed post about it too.
Comment by mercuriuspoliticus — April 8, 2008 @ 1:00 pm |
Thanks!
Comment by teofilo — April 8, 2008 @ 1:13 pm |
You’re killing me with this. Seriously, you’re absolutely killing me. Just name your price, already, okay? I’ll pay your stipend out of my own pocket. And I know you’d be coming to study with Alan. That’s fine. He’s better than I am, anyway, and you deserve the best. But, as I said in a comment at 1692, why don’t you just accept that it’s not that bad an idea to get paid for doing what you seem to love.
Comment by ari — April 9, 2008 @ 1:21 am |
The problem, however, as Cala and eb point out, is that I likely wouldn’t continue to love it if I had to do it all the time. Even if I was getting paid.
Comment by teofilo — April 9, 2008 @ 10:10 am |
Y’know, I still love it. A lot. And why not try? You have a better idea?
Comment by ari — April 9, 2008 @ 4:43 pm |
I wasn’t actually thinking about love for the subject. I dropped out, but I never burned out on my love for history. I was thinking more along the lines of 1) time pressure and 2) incentives. If you’re busy with a lot of academic work, it’s easy for something like this to get neglected.
Comment by eb — April 9, 2008 @ 5:57 pm |
I suspect time pressure and incentives are the root causes of both neglect for side projects like this and burnout on the subject.
Comment by teofilo — April 9, 2008 @ 6:06 pm |
What’s up, is there anybody else here?
If there are any real people here looking to network, leave me a post.
Oh, and yes I’m a real person LOL.
Bye,
Comment by BlueHornet — July 17, 2009 @ 4:13 pm |