This week, ending in December 10 2015:
Today's thread is for open discussion of:
History in the academy
Historiographical disputes, debates and rivalries
Implications of historical theory both abstractly and in application
Philosophy of history
And so on
Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion only of matters like those above, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.
Does anybody's work deal with institutional anthropology or sociology? I'm discovering (via Isabel Hull's fantastic book on the German Army, Absolute Destruction) that it might be a very promising avenue to take my research on the Austro-Hungarian Army. Anyone do anything with it in their personal work?