History

Close at Hand

A Pocket History of Technology

The History of Today

In 2008, this essay was my answer to “What is your career vision and why is this choice meaningful to you?” I pulled it up today and marveled at how much it still means to me. My vision has shifted, but the undercurrents are still there.

Global Ambitions: Atlanta’s 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition

The World of Writing

A month ago today, I turned in my senior thesis. On Atlanta’s 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition; it was a…

Nightmares Exorcised in Dreamland

In 1905, a novel attraction opened at Coney Island’s Dreamland. “In ‘Hell Gate,’” the New York…

A Calm Collision

The world just rolls over, without anyone noticing exactly when, and a new set of circumstances is put in place. But the impulse to hold on to the past is very strong, and it is often hard to understand why things that worked once can’t continue to work. A lot of energy and imagination are consumed…

Bring Your Own Buttons

Another in an occasional series of long excerpts from weird papers I’ve written in college. If you finish these few…

Instructions for Everyday Life: Homecraft & Romance