Grand Forks is a pretty interesting little town if you pay attention to what’s going on. This past week, the long simmering news became ..
I was pretty interested in the recent vote to fund the construction of a new Memorial Union on the campus of the University of North ..
It’s Veterans Day and we’re also recognizing the 100th anniversary of the Great War. In keeping with this, I figured I should ..
Recently, there’s been a pretty interesting debate in my little town on bump outs. Bump outs are a form of curb extension generally ..
Over the last year, I’ve been whispering about this project a bit. Kyle Conway is editing an updated version of The Williston ..
The final demolition of the four Wesley College buildings starts today on the campus of the University of North Dakota. I’m pretty ..
In about a half hour, I start my one-credit class designed to document the two buildings on the University of North Dakota’s campus ..
Book launch days are always the best days, and today’s book (re)launch is particularly sweet. The Digital Press at the University ..
Last weekend, the night before the Eagles punched their ticket to the Super Bowl, a group of us got together to talk punk rock in the Trump ..
Our panel last week at the Northern Great Plains History Conference was really exciting. The four papers presented in our panel, titled ..
The ground floor of O’Kelly Hall on the lovely campus of the University of North Dakota is getting a well deserved upgrade. For those ..
Last week, I posted a serialized (actually in process) version of my paper, “The Bakken Gaze: Tourism, Petroculture, and Modern Views ..
Here’s the final installment of my paper for the Northern Great Plains History Conference next week here in Grand Forks. As I wrote ..
I’m continuing to work on my paper for next week’s Northern Great Plains History Conference. I started the paper with a little ..
This weekend, I started getting some ideas on paper for a conference paper that I’ll be delivering next month at the Northern Great ..
Book are born from the inside out. First the content, then the design, finally the front matter and index, and finally the cover. Bret Weber ..
Working as both a publisher and an author has given me certain insights into the tricky final stage of the publication process: page proofs. ..
I got page proofs this week for my book with Bret Weber: The Bakken: An Archaeology of an Industrial Landscape which will be out this fall ..
My Friday afternoon house cleaning was interrupted last week by a knock on my door. A 20-something guy in a sleeveless t-shirt and jeans ..
What are you doing on Thursday, October 5th, from 2-4 pm? If you’re in the Grand Forks, you should come out and see our panel at the Northern ..
There has been an interesting debate going on in my home town of Grand Forks, ND over the last few months. The city is looking to sell one of a small ..
Over the past week or so, I’ve been making my way slowly through Ivan Illich’s Tools for Conviviality (1973) over the last ..
Some good news today from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. David Haeselin’s Haunted by Water: the Future of Memory ..
One of my long simmering projects is to pull together a bibliography of works relevant to the study of the Bakken oil patch and the most ..
Please do join me in congratulating David Haeselin and his students in the Writing, Editing, and Publishing program at the University of North ..
Next fall, the Northern Great Plains History Conference will be in Grand Forks. So my colleagues and I put together a panel proposal on the Bakken. ..
With any luck and a little concentration, The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota will release two books next week. I already ..
Some deadlines you have to respect more than others. On April 17th, Grand Forks remembers the first day of the massive 1997 Red River flood ..
At a meeting a week before spring break, one of the student representatives expressed concern about the University of North Dakota budget ..