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AAG Presidential Address 1916
reactionary notes: I had hoped that I would be offering something new to the field with my dissertation. Apparently I was wrong. Jefferson wrote in 1916, "But a rather extended investigation of cities and their relation to the land shows the essential unity of city and country" (page 6). I'm doomed. ...
American Historical Association Presidential Addresses
I will freely admit my negligence in reading and reporting on the AAG presidential addresses. (I'll cover one this weekend, I promise), but I thought some people might be interested to note that the American Historical Association has just put all of their Presidential Addresses in one place, along with ...
Reading the Presidential Addresses so that you don’t have to: 1915
At least 2 interesting things happened in late December, 1915. British troops and German troops emerged from their trenches and converged on No Man's Land for a friendly game of Christmas football and Richard Elwood Dodge gave a speech to a gaggle of geographers. Which is to say, at least ...
Problems of Geographic Influence: A Presidential Address Reflection (1914)
Albert Perry Brigham knew how to start a talk. No apologies. No broad introduction. No warm up jokes. No false modesty. "We deal here with the heart of geography." The goal of the talk? Nothing less than a rallying cry for rigor. "It is just as necessary here, ...
Glaciers and Glaciation of Alaska. 1911 AAG Presidential Address
I think that it is possible that Tarr copied most of this presidential address from Wikipedia. Or, I suppose that it would be more accurate to say that he copied it from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 edition, which has recently been put online as a wiki. Here's what ...
Reading the Presidential Addresses So You Don’t Have To: 1910, Pittsburgh
Note: Last year I thought I'd keep myself busy with the monumental task of reading all of the addresses that AAG Presidents made to our august Association. I made it to 1908 when I got bogged down by Gilbert's discussions of the potential for predicting earthquakes and their ...
Navel (not Naval) Gazing
Claudia, Wow. It's been quite the month. It would be easy to say that the highlight of our Grand Tour of South India with the Family was the day long trek through the Tiger Preserve, or the great conversations over 5 hour dinners in Varkala, or watching the fishing boats ply ...
From Madurai: 23 October, 2008
Claudia, (and Aaron) I think we'll find something for Abbey. I'm not overly concerned. At least not yet. I've been trying to get back on track with my little endeavor to read all of the AAG presidential addresses. I'm not sure that it relates at all to your last letter, ...A Well Directed Effort
[caption id="attachment_42" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="William Morris Davis"][/caption] Having rallied the troops in the first presidential address[1. For some reason the comments were turned off for the reflection on the 1st presidential address, if you would like to leave a comment, you can do so no. For background on the Presidential Address ...“The Opportunity for the Association of American Geographers”
We were born in whiplash; bouncing from strength to weakness, weakness to strength, between everything and nothing, cursed with low self esteem and a sense of grave importance. In his address to the first meeting of the AAG, former President W. M. Davis flatly told the geographers gathered in Philedelphia ...