by Thomas Hallock | Oct 6, 2021 | Road Course
On October 6, 1723 a young runaway named Benjamin Franklin walked down a Delaware River wharf, stepped onto dry land, and for the first time his life, trod the streets of Philadelphia. His circuit that morning would become the iconic passage in a story of his...
by Thomas Hallock | Sep 9, 2021 | Road Course
Like most people, I vividly remember the morning of September 11, 2001. And like many people, my memories do not entirely check out. I thought I was prepping a class, American Literature to 1860. I was at USF, working as an adjunct, in my first semester since moving...
by Thomas Hallock | Jul 13, 2021 | Road Course
If you were a young scholar of American Literature back in the 1990s, most likely, you were a new historicist. To be a “new” historicist, as opposed to the old ones (with their sclerotic ideas about bibliography and history of thought) meant that you (the...
