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Jeff Manuel
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Historian of Energy, Technology, and the Environment; Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Coauthor of "Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels;” Public and Oral History Practitioner.
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co-authoring: it's not for everybody
January 29, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Moving closer to the joke that financial markets are just astrology for men
January 29, 2026 at 7:34 PM
It's free and online. Registration here view.ecommunications2.umn.edu?qs=baa334565...
Email from University of Minnesota
view.ecommunications2.umn.edu
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Both look great, thank you!
January 13, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Thanks!
January 13, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Thank you!
January 13, 2026 at 5:41 PM
In the 2000s, I met a t-shirt buyer for Target. According to him, he tried to revive Vaurnet as an ironic retro brand but couldn’t pull it off for some reason.
January 1, 2026 at 2:24 AM
This is like a Cory Arcangel installation piece
December 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Which do you find more annoying: bad handwriting or doing tech support?
December 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
So long as you’re okay assessing content knowledge rather than the structure of an argument, bluebooks.
December 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Whoa. Didn’t know about this. Thanks for sharing.
December 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Agreed. This is an issue of priorities. Madison and St. Clair counties in Illinois maintain hundreds of miles of incredible dedicated bike trails. There's no reason the riverfront trail couldn't be just a nice (except for after a flood 😅)
December 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
In our recent book, Tom Rogers and I tell the story of how a state-level regulator in Maine, of all places, uncovered the MTBE water pollution crisis. One of my favorite stories from the book.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...
Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press
Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...
www.oupress.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Looking forward to a brave new future where AI plays the Costello to my Abbott
December 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
creating new blind spots. Microfilm did the same two generations prior. Seems like we historians should channel a bit more of our customary sanguinary at this moment.
December 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
We historians are often strangely disinterested in the technologies of scholarship and how they affect our work. People are rightly mad at the plagiarism machine in the classroom.
But we all rely on digitized, OCRed, and keyword searchable texts. They’ve revolutionized source access while
December 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM