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How did I go from writing about southern industrialists and the New Deal to college radio?
I’ll be the first to admit it: it looks a little strange. My first book is about southern industrial lobbyists who responded negatively to the New Deal and, in the process, ushered in a new construction of conservative policy and politics that made room for the South. And now, here I am, writing about college…
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My Sticky-Note Outlining Process
I’ve been posting on Twitter randomly recently about my process while outlining a couple of new chapters. I’ll elaborate and make it clearer what is happening. I wrote a whole thread about this, then accidentally deleted it. A blog post is better, anyways. As I’m researching, writing, I often make notes on stickies about ideas…
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Reconstructing the Archives in Sound
Early this January I was writing up a section of my book project on college radio about Rice University’s KTRU in the 1980s. KTRU-FM’s records include both paper and sound: their online collection of on-air programming is one of the more extensive in college radio history. I visited the physical archives in June 2019, in…
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A Podcast Plan
ORGANIZE, verb. (transitive) To arrange in working order. ORGANIZE, verb. (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize. ORGANIZE, verb. (transitive) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; —…
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Visting Gropius House
While I was composing Resources for Pens and Paper Part I: Brick and Mortar (Boston), I remarked upon how visiting Bob Slate Stationer has a timeless quality, reminiscent of Walter Gropius’s desk. It made me nostalgic for visits to Gropius House, one of the properties of Historic New England. Gropius came to the United States…
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Resources for Pens and Paper Part I: Brick and Mortar (Boston)
Part I of a series on the sources I use for pens, paper, and various tools of the scholar’s trade. This post focuses on brick-and-mortar stores that I frequent most often (when I am able).
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Why the “Rye”? It’s a long story…
The Hidden Political History of Southern Naming Traditions I share a middle name with my grandfather and my uncle, James Rye Jewell, Sr., and James Rye Jewell, Jr., a retired commander of the U.S. Navy. My cousin Blythe, Jr.’s daughter, has my Dad’s middle name, so it was only fair that the name swapping tradition…
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History as Therapy: Reconstructing the Boston Bombings
The last two weeks have been difficult ones here in Boston, from the immediate trauma and shock of the bombings, to false reports of arrests, to a manhunt and lockdown, and now to the re-opening of Boylston St. and the resolve of moving forward. As I look back, I realize that not only are my…
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Our Boston Marathon 2013 Story
Some blog posts you just don’t want to write, and this is one of them. I’m thankful to be writing it, that I’m able, and that for us, it all turned out okay. “Okay” is such a relative word, but it works. Yesterday I took my almost-4-year old and 7 month old to Natick with…
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