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The Banff Photographic Exchange: Albums, Youth, Skiing, and Memory Making in the 1920s
“We Want Pictures so Kodak as You Go”: Promoting Winter Recreation in Banff in the 1920s
Category Archives: Grad School
5 Stages of Recovering from Academia
Hi. My name is Lauren and I am a Recovering Academic. It has been 2 years and 6 months since I was in graduate studies and I have a good full-time job in my field. Yet, there are times, usually … Continue reading
Posted in Grad School, Opinion
Tagged academia, Activism, Graduate Students, Opinion, Reflection, University
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ASEH 2012: Madison Wisconsin and Digital History
Early on Thursday morning environmental historians from across the United States, Canada, and Europe converged on Madison, Wisconsin for the annual ASEH meeting. Madison is not an easy, or cheap, place to get to and it seemed like everyone had … Continue reading
FOUND! The Gateway Sept 1970-March 1971
Found the missing year! The helpful people at the University of Alberta Archives and in the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library tracked down The Gateway run for the 1970/1971 academic year. The newspaper continued to publish and report on the … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environmentalism, Grad School, Research
Tagged Activism, Archives, ASEH, Canada, dissertation, Environmentalism, Research, University
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Missing: The Gateway April 1970-September 1971
The Gateway (newspaper) is missing from April 1970 to September 1971 and I need help finding it! Continue reading
Dissertation Arithmetic, or 56hrs/wk
As the semester begins graduate students, like the undergraduates, get back to work. The difference is the grad students probably didn’t take much of a break from working during the week universities close between fall and winter semesters. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Grad School, Procrastination, Research
Tagged dissertation, Graduate Students, Reflection, University
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Lauren Wheeler, Can Enviro Rock? 