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To be updated whenever I feel like it.

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Detonation Windows: Conference Stability in FBS Football, 2026–2036, and Whether the Next Domino Fall Is an Extinction Event: A White Paper Abstract FBS conference realignment is usually analyzed as a sequence of discrete raids. It is better understood as a system with a known fuse length....

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The Absent Constituency: Broadcast Scheduling, Distant Markets, and the Question of What Is Owed to the Fans in the Building: A White Paper Abstract Contemporary sports scheduling increasingly treats the live audience as a set decoration rather than a customer....

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The Ten-Year Gap: Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder in the Documentary Record, the Little House Novels, and the Television Series Abstract The age difference between Laura Elizabeth Ingalls and Almanzo James Wilder was approximately ten years — a gap that the Little House novels reduce, at their most extreme, to five....

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Feeding the March: Sherman’s Georgia and Carolinas Campaigns as a Recovery of Early Modern Logistics: A White Paper Abstract The logistical arrangements of William T. Sherman's March to the Sea (November–December 1864) and Carolinas campaign (January–April 1865) are routinely described as an innovation — the birth of modern operational war, the ancestor of the motorized deep thrust, the practical invention of war against an enemy's economic base....

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Walking at Speed: Walking Football as a Codified Sport, Its Global Footprint, and Its Place Among the Football Variants Executive Summary Walking football is the youngest widely played code in the football family and the only one whose defining rule constrains the human gait rather than the pitch, the ball, or the number of players....

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Battles Decided Before They Were Fought: Bosworth, Sekigahara, and the Neglected Historiography of Pre-Battle Alignment Abstract Two battles occupy nearly identical positions in the national narratives of England and Japan. Bosworth Field (22 August 1485) is treated as the terminus of the Wars of the Roses and the founding moment of the Tudor century....

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Measuring Absence: Why Combat Participation Rate Requires Decomposition: Perryville, Antietam, and the Causes of Non-Engagement: A follow-up to “Battles Decided Before They Were Fought” Abstract The preceding paper proposed combat participation rate — the share of a mustered force that actually made contact — as a diagnostic tool for identifying battles settled by pre-battle negotiation rather than tactical decision....

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A Grand Circuit of Iran: All 31 Provinces Roughly 115 nights (about four months), one continuous counterclockwise loop from Tehran back to Tehran, with almost no backtracking....

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Custody Without Guardians: Child Protection in the Entertainment Industry, Examined Against the Long History of the Performer Abstract A short promotional video from 2009, in which a forty-year-old music executive announces to a global audience that he has been "given custody" of a fifteen-year-old singer for a weekend of activity that "we can't really disclose," has been re-examined in the years since its subject's federal prosecution....

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The Unbounded League: Barriers to Stability in College Football Realignment and the Conditions Under Which a Durable Alignment Could Emerge: A White Paper Executive Summary College football's realignment cycle is routinely described as chaos, drama, or madness — language that treats instability as a pathology afflicting an otherwise sound structure....

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The Rake, the Gentleman, and the Rake Without a Name: Self-Command and Self-Indulgence from Austen’s Regency to the Present Abstract Jane Austen inherited the eighteenth-century figure of the rake and stripped him of his glamour. In Willoughby, Wickham, and Henry Crawford she drew men whose charm is a working tool, whose pleasures are purchased with other people's ruin, and whose defining trait is that they will sacrifice nothing of themselves for anyone....

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The Human Toll of the Westport Campaign: An Estimate of Confederate Attrition During Price’s Missouri Expedition, September–December 1864 Executive summary Sterling Price's Army of Missouri entered its home state in mid-September 1864 with roughly twelve thousand men, of whom perhaps a third carried no weapon....

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Paper 12 — The Late Twentieth Century and After: Exile, Gentrification, and the Contest over Memory, 1959–Present Introduction This final paper carries the history of Tampa's working people from the mid-twentieth century into the present and, in doing so, draws together the arguments of the whole series....

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Paper 11 — Civil Rights and the Bulldozer: Black Freedom and the Destruction of Neighborhoods, 1945–1975 Introduction The postwar decades brought to Tampa two great upheavals that this paper treats together, because they were bound up with each other in the lives of the city's working people and especially its Black community....

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Paper 10 — Collapse, Depression, and War: The Unmaking of the Cigar City, 1920s–1945 Introduction The world that the preceding papers described—the booming cigar city, its striving immigrant families, its great mutual-aid societies, its proud and militant craftsmen, its women holding households and institutions together—did not last....

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Paper 9 — Women’s Tampa: Wage-Earners, Organizers, and the Backbone of Community Life, 1880s–1940s Introduction Through the eight papers of this series, women have appeared again and again at the load-bearing points of Tampa's history—the Tocobaga women whose shellfish harvest built the middens, the frontier wives who ran the farms while the men went to war, the cigar workers' wives who kept the boardinghouses and pooled the family earnings, the women at the factory bench....

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Paper 8 — Vigilantes, Jim Crow, and the Color Line: Repression and Black Survival, 1880s–1930s Introduction The previous paper reconsidered the cigar workers' militancy and its costs. This one turns to the force that met that militancy—the employer-backed repression and vigilante violence that ran through Tampa's history—and to the broader system of racial control, Jim Crow, that shaped the lives of every Black and Afro-Cuban person in the city....