Reading, Writing, and Sports Broadcasting

by Doug Howard. Weekend before last I was watching the Tigers game against the Padres. The game was being played in sunny San Diego, and my old Indiana University grad school friend and Tigers fan Bill Wood, who now teaches at Point Loma, was texting me from his seat on the third base line. Some …

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“Using” Your History Major

by Doug Howard. The phrase, "I'm not really using my history major," should be banished from the vocabulary of history grads! Ten years out—no, five—you're probably not going to remember more than a few of the facts you learned in History of the Modern Middle East. (I've gotten over it.) I do hope something sticks—especially, …

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