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Articles by David Welky
Advice | A Candidate-First Model of Faculty Hiring for Cruel Times
Finding a tenure-track job in the humanities is like throwing a dart at a map taped to a wall 50 yards away. There’s a good chance you’ll miss the target entirely, and even if you hit the map, your dart is likely to stick somewhere you’ve never heard of and never envisioned yourself living. Like, say, our history department at the University of Central Arkansas. Imagine if your dart landed on our campus, and the prospect of spending your academic career in Conway, Ark.
Blaming the Messenger: Trump, the KKK, and the War on Historians
Hiram Evans leads the KKK in Washington, DC, 1926 During the lead-up to the election, President Trump and other right-wing populists have attacked American historians who question traditional – some would say outdated – narratives of American history, meaning those that stress unthinking patriotism and unquestioning national pride.
Perspective | Roosevelt lied about his health during the 1944 election — with stark consequences
President Donald Trump in 2020? No, President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. That wartime campaign almost 80 years ago pitted New York Gov. Thomas Dewey against three-term incumbent Roosevelt. The latter concealed health issues for the sake of electoral victory, and it worked. Roosevelt defeated his Republican challenger 432 to 99, an electoral college landslide that obscured how close the election really was. Relative handfuls of votes decided such key states as Illinois, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
FDR's final speech has lessons for managing the coronavirus
Updated April 13, 2020 12:00 PM Newsday is opening this story to all readers so Long Islanders have access to important information about the coronavirus outbreak. All readers can learn the latest news at newsday.com/LiveUpdates. Amid the coronavirus pandemic that has killed tens of thousands, infected hundreds of thousands, overwhelmed our health-care system, wreaked havoc on the economy and shut down American society, leadership is crucially important yet has largely been missing.
Perspective | FDR’s final speech has lessons for managing the coronavirus crisis
Amid the coronavirus pandemic that has killed tens of thousands, infected hundreds of thousands, overwhelmed our health-care system, wreaked havoc on the economy and shut down American society, leadership is crucially important yet has largely been missing. What we need can be found in an unusual place — a speech never given. Seventy-five years ago this week, on April 12, 1945, President Franklin D.
Inside an Arctic expedition gone wrong
FAIRBANKS — If it’s possible that an expedition could be cursed from the outset, the signs didn’t bode well for the seven men who journeyed north in 1913 to locate and set foot on Crocker Land, an undiscovered continent then believed to lie in the Arctic Ocean. Before the group even departed the United States, one of its two leaders died in a boating accident. The ship chartered to carry them north ran aground off the coast of Canada and was too severely damaged to travel further.
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