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Tim’s Light Reading (1/7/2010)

1. Where is the history job market going?: Here’s Robert Townsend’s thesis. Here’s Marc Bousquet’s antithesis. Finally, this is not a Kantian synthesis, but here’s a different train of thought altogether. I’m somewhere between the Bousquet and Mondschein camps—although I accept the immediate reality of the facts in Townsend’s report. 2. Books of the Century: Berkeley graduate student Daniel Immerwahr has constructed an incredibly useful website containing lists of bestsellers and significant books from each decade of the twentieth century. Immerwahr is a PhD candidate under the direction of David Hollinger. 3. One Professor’s Top 10 List on the Past Read more