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A Failure To Comprehend

Posted on July 27, 2026 by nathanalbright

Two things are worth separating at the outset, because critics of these adaptations usually blur them and then get dismissed for it. The complaint is not that the adaptations fail to be reverent. It is that they fail to be … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on July 26, 2026 by nathanalbright

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. The binding instruments that hold conferences together — grants of rights and exit penalties — … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on July 26, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Contemporary sports scheduling increasingly treats the live audience as a set decoration rather than a customer. Two cases now on the table make the tension unusually clear. In the Mid-American Conference, November football has been deliberately shifted to Tuesday … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on July 25, 2026 by nathanalbright

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. This paper establishes what the documentary record actually shows … Continue reading →

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Feeding the March: Sherman’s Georgia and Carolinas Campaigns as a Recovery of Early Modern Logistics: A White Paper

Posted on July 25, 2026 by nathanalbright

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 … Continue reading →

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Battles Decided Before They Were Fought: Bosworth, Sekigahara, and the Neglected Historiography of Pre-Battle Alignment

Posted on July 24, 2026 by nathanalbright

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. Sekigahara … Continue reading →

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Custody Without Guardians: Child Protection in the Entertainment Industry, Examined Against the Long History of the Performer

Posted on July 23, 2026 by nathanalbright

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 … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on July 23, 2026 by nathanalbright

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. This paper argues the opposite. Realignment is not a disorder of the system; … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on July 22, 2026 by nathanalbright

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 … Continue reading →

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Paper 11 — Civil Rights and the Bulldozer: Black Freedom and the Destruction of Neighborhoods, 1945–1975

Posted on July 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

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. The first was the … Continue reading →

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