We have asked some of our writers from this past year to select some of their favorite books from 2020. Perhaps some of these books will end up source texts for future genealogists. So, if you are looking for a last-minute gift for your favorite genealogists, or making reading resolutions for 2021, we have you covered!

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking right now and how writers are trying to keep up. Here are some routes we found in November that opened up new vistas on what it means to be modern and how we became that way.

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking right now and how writers are trying to keep up. Here are some routes we found in October that opened up new vistas on what it means to be modern and how we became that way.

September

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking right now and how writers are trying to keep up. Here are some routes we found in September that opened up new vistas on what it means to be modern and how we became that way.

August

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking right now and how writers are trying to keep up. Here are some routes we found in August that opened up new vistas on what it means to be modern and how became we that way.

July

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking right now and how writers are trying to keep up. Here are some routes we found in July that opened up new vistas on what it means to be modern and how became we that way.

June

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking right now and how writers are trying to keep up. Here are some routes we found in June that opened up new vistas on what it means to be modern and how became we that way.

May

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking right now and how writers are trying to keep up. Here are some routes we found in April that opened up new vistas on what it means to be modern and how became we that way.

April

Each month we keep track of the differing paths modern life is taking right now and how writers are trying to keep up. Here are some routes we found that opened up new vistas on being modern and how we got that way.

Tim Barr’s links for February

Tim Barr’s links for January.

Tim Barr’s links for December.

Tim Barr’s links for November.

Tim Barr’s links for October.

Tim Barr’s links for September.

Tim Barr’s links for August

Tim Barr’s links for July

Last week concluded an excellent and stimulating third Genealogies of Modernity Seminar.

“If ‘modernity,’ for example is an egalitarian project, we can say that, to a certain extent, we have started to become modern. But, the increased accumulation of wealth in the hands of a small segment of the world’s population and the shrinking of the middle class would seem to testify that the ‘modern’ project has stopped or even reversed.”

“The decline of academic humanities does not necessarily mean the end of the humanities. It could mean this (and thus the withering of humanity), it could also mean a new way forward. Humans are marked—as Hannah Arendt identified—by natality, the truth of birth and new initiatives.”