Comments on: Welcome to the new “Publick Occurrences” http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=3 Notes on American history and politics and other matters, by Prof. Jeffrey L. Pasley and guests. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:46:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: The History Enthusiast http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-20 The History Enthusiast Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:26:34 +0000 http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/pasley/?p=3#comment-20 Glad to see this! I will link to it on my blog. Common-place is where I go whenever I need a good dose of colonial history/Early Republic. Glad to see this! I will link to it on my blog. Common-place is where I go whenever I need a good dose of colonial history/Early Republic.

]]> By: Publick Occurrences » Readers’ Concerns: Expository writing classes M.I.A. http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-11 Publick Occurrences » Readers’ Concerns: Expository writing classes M.I.A. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:47:33 +0000 http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/pasley/?p=3#comment-11 [...] is a reader question that I do not know much about, promoted from the comments: I have been browsing the Summer Youth Writing Institutes, and you guessed it, the closest anyone [...] [...] is a reader question that I do not know much about, promoted from the comments: I have been browsing the Summer Youth Writing Institutes, and you guessed it, the closest anyone [...]

]]> By: Will Fitzhugh http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-8 Will Fitzhugh Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:23:54 +0000 http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/pasley/?p=3#comment-8 I have been browsing the Summer Youth Writing Institutes, and you guessed it, the closest anyone gets to nonfiction (academic expository) writing is something called "Creative Nonfiction"—which, I gather, means really absorbing personal memoirs, with some creativity thrown in? My perennial question is, why aren't more people upset about this? Is everyone asleep or unwilling to think about the academic writing tasks set in college? Will Fitzhugh, fitzhugh@tcr.org I have been browsing the Summer Youth Writing Institutes, and you guessed it, the closest anyone gets to nonfiction (academic expository) writing is something called “Creative Nonfiction”—which, I gather, means really absorbing personal memoirs, with some creativity thrown in?

My perennial question is, why aren’t more people upset about this? Is
everyone asleep or unwilling to think about the academic writing tasks
set in college? Will Fitzhugh, fitzhugh@tcr.org

]]> By: Ed Gray http://www.common-place.org/pasley/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2 Ed Gray Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:53:02 +0000 http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/pasley/?p=3#comment-2 Some might say it's about time Common-place entered the blogosphere. The truth is, we've had this in mind for some time. But, like so many journals and organizations, we've found ourselves unable to answer important questions. How, for example, will we archive blogs? Common-place is a member of the History Co-operative, a consortium of history journals that maintains a database accessible to subscribers. How can such a repository accommodate blogs? To be honest, we haven't answered this and many other questions. But thanks to Jeff Pasley, John McCoy, and our supporting institutions we have decided to go ahead and take the plunge. Jeff's blog will be, we hope, one of several that will be part of Common-place. We have no intention of entirely giving over our standard, formal quarterly articles and columns to the blogosphere. Common-place will remain a quarterly magazine of American history. But now, with Jeff's blog and others to come, it will also, we hope, be a place for on-going, active, and vibrant discussion about things historical and things that matter to our readers and our contributors. Some might say it’s about time Common-place entered the blogosphere. The truth is, we’ve had this in mind for some time. But, like so many journals and organizations, we’ve found ourselves unable to answer important questions. How, for example, will we archive blogs? Common-place is a member of the History Co-operative, a consortium of history journals that maintains a database accessible to subscribers. How can such a repository accommodate blogs? To be honest, we haven’t answered this and many other questions. But thanks to Jeff Pasley, John McCoy, and our supporting institutions we have decided to go ahead and take the plunge. Jeff’s blog will be, we hope, one of several that will be part of Common-place. We have no intention of entirely giving over our standard, formal quarterly articles and columns to the blogosphere. Common-place will remain a quarterly magazine of American history. But now, with Jeff’s blog and others to come, it will also, we hope, be a place for on-going, active, and vibrant discussion about things historical and things that matter to our readers and our contributors.

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