In his piece, The Footnote: A Curious History, Anthony Grafton explores the illustrious life stirring at the bottom of the page in much academic history writing. He begins this history of historiography recognizing the role of the footnote in legitimating the professional historian and slowly becoming a stale routine (4-5)....

Over the last several years, I have encountered metaphors or lenses or whatever else we may want to call perspectives that give us new angles on established patterns. Though I can not pursue all of these experiments at once, I feel the need to mark them on this page, not...

This post was the bibliography section of my initial dissertation proposal in the Spring of 2015.