Don't miss introducing yourself (again) to my friend, Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies at Yale, and the most capaciously omnivorous intellectual that I know, Kathryn Lofton -- the latest "Top Young Historian." Her manifesto:
Every historian realizes, at some point or another, that what they do is something may be more interpretive, more imaginative, and more manipulative than chatter of "objectivity" suggests. But when Trouillot named my glee an innocence-and my "discovery" an imperial format-I think I began, finally, to commit to history. Not as a romance with data, or a story to unfold, or a voice to ventriloquize, but as a practice of powerful criticism, one in which we unrelentingly seek the mess, especially when anything presents too easily, too neatly, too logically, to be true.
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