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Board Games of Life
Dear La-Z-Boy loungers, I don’t know about you, but I vastly preferred board games as a child over the more dangerous (and potentially embarrassing) pursuits of the athletics field. Still I can’t help...
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Trick-or-Treaters and Headless Horsemen
Dear idling experts, I’ve lived in Massachusetts for three Halloweens now, counting tomorrow, but I’ve yet to trek to Salem for their ghoulish festivities. From what I hear, they’re a real hoot—if by...
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Easter Bunny Blues
To the holiday-cheerful, Today’s post comes to you from a very special guest, someone who can speak with far more authority about Easter than I ever could (and far more irony than I would ever dare),...
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Music Mags From the Age of Implosion
Dear iTunes addicts, Today’s post comes to you courtesy of Jack Hamilton, a fellow PhD student in Harvard’s American Civilization program. He is currently at work on his dissertation titled ‘Rubber...
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An Archival Pride Parade
Dear air conditioner enthusiasts, You may have heard that June is LGBT Pride Month in these United States, marked by rainbow-banner parades in cities across the country. Boston’s passed a few Saturdays...
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Back to the Land, Now and Then
To the chronically tired, While I may be lazy in my scholarship, let it never be said I’m a stranger to physical labor. On Monday, I started volunteering one morning a week at a local farm here in...
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Divided States #3: Connecticut Connections
Many who like procrastination like this blog, Today’s post, number three in the Lazy Scholar’s ongoing Divided States project, comes to you from Brian Distelberg, a historian of twentieth-century U.S....
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California Dreaming
Dear obsessive Netflix queue updaters, I went to San Francisco last week to do some research at a couple of non-digital archives—you know, the kind with actual, physical papers and books—but spent much...
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Old News: Advertising, Globetrotting, Fishing
Dear weekend awaiters, This is the second installment of a new Lazy Scholar feature, pairing news items with historical archives. • Slate‘s TV Club is diligently following and debating the new season...
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Boy Scouts in America: Or, Scrutiny in the Archive
To those wearing white one week longer, The great Brian Distelberg, a PhD candidate in history at Yale, returns today to these pages. In case you missed it, check out his musings on Connecticut. And...
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