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2 weeks ago | 
annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing
Greetings from Madison! The Gnomes at Non-Boring House met, then sent the Nonnie Relations Gnome to speak with me. Their message: I should slow down in this, um, lively time. Not f…
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3 weeks ago | 
annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing
This is an Annette Tells Tales post at Non-Boring History, an exclusive for paying subscribers (because I can’t afford to write without them). Here, this historian translates fascinating (but hard to read) scholarship into chatty and even funny posts, to help you discover academic history, and why it matters.
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3 weeks ago | 
annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing
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1 month ago | 
annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing
Annette on the Roadposts at Dr. Annette Laing’s Non-Boring History are Annette’s takes not only as an academic and public historian, but as a historical tourist. She shows how she interprets museums and historic sites on the basis of the information in front of her, plus a little digging on the web, plus what prior knowledge she has, just as you do. That’s why these posts are a little more personal. New to Non-Boring History?
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1 month ago | 
annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing
History gets such a bad rap. But done right, it’s the best subject: No busy work, just listening and reading to enjoyable stories that inspire us to think, and that help all of us understand the world we live in now, even though we all come to different conclusions about it. Many years ago, I learned from teaching an American university student travel group in London that the best place to learn history, to gain a lifelong desire to learn about it, is on the road.
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1 month ago | 
annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing
As May ends, the buzz of lawnmowers outside is the soundtrack on a Midwestern US weekend. Even the most avid environmentalists, having held off through most of May to help out the little bugs that live in the leaves and tall grass, are sighing and firing up their mowers. Why? There’s a law that requires keeping grass trimmed, in oh-so-liberal Madison, Wisconsin, which has been in active denial for years that “No Mow May” is a thing.
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1 month ago | 
annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing
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1 month ago | 
annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing
This is an Annette on the Road post at Non-Boring History, in which historian Dr. Annette Laing writes about her travels in tourist mode, learning and sharing as she goes.
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1 month ago | 
annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing
Today is a free post. But please note: I paywall most of my work. I don’t use paywalls because I’m a mean nasty greedy lady. And I don’t make them all free to cynically pretend I’m a wonderful generous person for PR reasons, so you will reward me. Instead, I’m honest with you: This is fulltime work, it’s expensive to do, and the culture we have of not paying writers unless they tell us what we want to hear has been a disaster.
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1 month ago | 
annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing
“Here's a place that's cheaper than a good chain hotel, and it sounds awesome.”“I was just looking at that,” said Hoosen. Sold. Following in the footsteps of Hollywood glitterati, we would spend the night in a hotel in New Mexico that once played host to the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Cagney, Henry Fonda, and many more.
