Steven Kaplan on the History of the History of Food
The Browser magazine recently interviewed Steven Kaplan for its “5 Books” feature, in which the interview discusses five books that he considers to be of importance to food history. Along the way, Kaplan has a chance to talk about the field’s historiography and his own interactions with the study of food. Highly recommended.
Historians and Digital Scholarship
A recent news article in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a survey of the attitudes of 4,000 historians to digital scholarship. The survey “found that most are willing to try digital scholarship—such as interactive maps or online databases—but that the number of journals interested in publishing such online scholarship is tiny.” The journals […]
