{"id":13753,"date":"2021-01-26T10:16:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T18:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/?p=13753"},"modified":"2021-01-27T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T21:35:54","slug":"cogswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/news\/cogswell\/","title":{"rendered":"In Focus: Thomas Cogswell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Cogswell<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"\"Department:<\/strong> History
\nRank:<\/strong> Distinguished Professor
\n# of years at UCR:<\/strong> 21
\nTop three texts I would take to a desert island:<\/strong> Robert Caro’s volumes on Lyndon Johnson, Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair<\/em>, and Melvin Bragg’s podcast In Our Time.
\n<\/em>Favorite foods:<\/strong> A toss up.\u00a0A nice Mysore Masala Dosa or Korean Tofu Hotpot.
\nSomething people might be amazed to know about me \u2026.<\/strong>\u00a0I love exploring cities, one neighborhood at a time.
\nAn \u201cadventure\u201d I am looking forward to: <\/strong>Returning to the Hoover Wilderness in the Sierras and<\/em> the archives. Not simultaneously, of course.\u00a0 But what if they moved the British Library and the Kew Archives to Yosemite?\u00a0 I know.\u00a0A harmless drone.
\nLittle known – but fun!- resource:<\/strong> earlystuartlibels.net\/htdocs\/index.html<\/a>
\n–<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Q: My research agenda summed up in one sentence:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

How vicious rumors, scurrilous outbursts and rude libels helped Britain descend into revolution in the mid-seventeenth century.<\/p>\n

Q: What is your current topic of research?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Figuring out why Lt. John Felton stabbed the Duke of Buckingham in 1628.<\/p>\n

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The \u00cele de R\u00e9 is now a posh French resort. But in late 1627, it witnessed the slaughter of several thousand of British troops. Among the few survivors were Buckingham and Felton. Here I am visiting the French fortress on the island. Ah, the things I do for scholarship!<\/p><\/div>\n

Q: Your research and writing goals have shifted in the past few years. Why?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Having produced a small mountain of proper [i.e. boring] scholarship [yawn], I now want to write things people might want to read.<\/p>\n

Q: What is your favorite part of research?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Reading other people’s mail … that is four centuries old.<\/p>\n

Q: If you could make one change to “the academy,” what would it be?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

More tolerance and charity, less pomposity and pettiness.<\/p>\n

Q: What books or resources do you often recommend to students?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

G.E. Cokayne’sComplete Peerage, the Anglo-Saxon poem The Battle of Maldon<\/em>and short clips from Monty Python and Terry Deary’s\u00a0Horrible Histories.<\/em><\/p>\n

Q: Any advice on how to capture students’ attention in lecture?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Abandon the podium and roam around the classroom, and use LOTS of visual images and music.<\/p>\n

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In Focus is a interview series that features faculty associates of the Center for Ideas and Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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