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• Originally published 08/23/2013

  Claire Potter: The Ten Commandments of Graduate School

  So you are starting graduate school, eh? Against all of our best advice here in the blogosphere, you are determined to embark on the scholarly life.  Well, you know what I have to say about that?Good luck and godspeed! Keep your feet dry and your spectacles up to date! Cover your head when the sun is too bright! Don’t fly with ballpoint pens in your luggage! Get a cat!

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• Originally published 08/14/2013

  What Should Students Know About Grad School?

  David Austin Walsh

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• Originally published 08/14/2013

  To Students Seeking the PhD in History

  Vaughn Davis Bornet

  When at my advanced age one turns nostalgic it is time to beware. “Never look back” is an appropriate motto for the aged. It is an utterly inappropriate slogan for any historian to live with. In any case, I’m about to peer back at aspects of the profession of historian as I have observed it for over three quarters of a century.