I graduated college for the last time (presumably) about six weeks ago. According to my dissertation committee, I should be putting together a book proposal and an article from my dissertation this summer. The problem is that I have just about zero interest in touching my dissertation topic anymore. I'm burned out on dealing with Ronald Reagan's ( Read more... )

I just encountered one of those weird, completely random research moments that nobody will care about but me.  My M.A. thesis involved the anti-Chinese movement in California in the 1860s and 1870s.  In 1879, Article XIX became part of the second California Constitution, which stated that "no corporation now existing or hereafter formed under the ( Read more... )