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  • Dr. Baird Stories
    • Adventure Stories
      • Dr. Baird Stalks the Mother of all Grizzlies
      • Dr. Baird’s Craziest Twenty-Four Hours Ever
      • Dr. Baird Finds His Irish Cousins
        • My Family Search in Ireland Thirty Years Later (August 2017)
        • A Family Story: The Robinsons of Plaquemines Parish
    • Funny Stories
      • Dr. Baird Declares Jihad
        • Video: Dr. Baird Declares Jihad
      • Dr. Baird Dunks a Basketball
        • Video: Dr. Baird Dunks a Basketball
      • Dr. Baird Orders Chinese Food in Poland
    • Juvenilia
      • A Letter To America
      • Autobiography
        • Chapter 1 | Me and Jesus (A Stupid Story)
        • Chapter 2 | Me and My First Memories
      • Project Survival
    • Octagon Stories
      • Baird leaves legacy of skits, stories, holiday traditions during 15 years teaching history
      • Basketballs, jihad and grizzlies! History teacher makes YouTube channel to post his famous stories
      • Biblical archaeology article from Harper’s offends some Jewish students, parents
      • Dr. Baird Stories
      • From JFK’s assassination to 9/11, teachers remember their own biggest news events
      • History teacher Bruce Baird braves charging elephants, aggressive monkeys on a self-drive African safari
      • HOW TO ACE THE WORLD CULTURES FINAL: Write out the short answers, outline the essay
      • POINT OF INTEREST: History teacher Bruce Baird takes over sophomore project
      • Six teachers’ plans for retirement range from researching Native Americans to volunteering at the MIND Institute
      • Sophomore parents raise concerns about classes; agenda outlines issues with curriculum, questions teachers’ methods
      • What were you doing on the day JFK was shot? Teachers remember.
  • Reflections on the Study of the Past
    • Caste, Class, and Cultural Criticism in the Depression South (Fall 1990)
    • Confessions of an Electronic Book Review Editor (Jan. 1999)
    • A Scientific History: Problems, Possibilities, and Probabilities (Spring 1990)
      • Letter to DBR on Scientific History (April 1991)
    • The Central Theme of American History (Fall 1991)
    • Making Sense of Seventeenth-Century Virginians (March 1999)
    • My Experience with Community (Fall 1990)
    • Origins of the Dissertation (1996-97)
    • Relativism versus Objectivity (Sept. 1991)
    • Some Thoughts on Teaching and Research (Spring 1997)
    • Stepping Out of Myths and Into the Gray (Spring 1995)
    • The Autobiography of an Ex-Engineer: A Lesson in Creative Problem-Solving (Sept. 1988)
    • Historiography
      • Myths of Origin, Origins of Myth (Spring 1995)
      • The Historiographical Impact of Lee Benson’s “The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy” (Fall 1989)
      • The Party-in-the-Electorate in the Jacksonian South (Spring 1990)
  • Capitalism & the Myth of Maximizing
    • Preface
    • The Origins of American Capitalism
    • The Peasant Planters of Seventeenth-Century Virginia
    • Necessity, the Perpetual Mother
    • The Myth of Maximizing and Human Nature
    • Appendices
      • Appendix I Tobacco Productivity, 1669-1703
      • Appendix II Demand for Labor, 1662-1679
      • Appendix III Demand for Land, 1664-1706
      • Appendix IV Multiple Regression Analysis
      • Appendix V An Analysis of Chesapeake Tobacco Prices
      • Appendix VI Toward a Necessity Synthesis of Political Economy
  • The Economy of Early America
    • Dissertation
    • The Myth of Maximizing: Reflections from the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake (March 1999)
    • A “Population Pressure” Framework for the Study of Migration in Early America, 1607-1860 (Spring 1991)
    • Necessity and the “Perverse” Supply of Labor in Pre-Classical British Political Economy (Fall 1997)
    • New Land Acquisition in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1660-1706 (Spring 1990)
    • Peasants and the Frontier in the Early American South (Fall 1989)
    • Political Economy
      • Chrematistics, Competency, and the Commonweal (Spring 1995)
      • Planting a Commonwealth (Spring 1995)
    • Comparative Economic Development in the Antebellum North and South
      • Bibliography
    • Urbanization in the Early American South
      • Bottom-Up Urbanization in the Antebellum Cotton South
      • The Invisible South: A Late Antebellum Community Revisited (Spring 1990)
      • Urbanization in the Early American South: A Theoretical Framework (Nov. 1989)
  • Dueling & the Origins of the Old South
    • “The Coffee-House World Manifest their Esteem by Laughing” (Nov. 1998)
    • Chronology of Virginia Affairs of Honor
    • Dueling and the Origins of the Old South (full version) (July 1996)
    • Dueling and the Origins of the Old South (SHEAR version) (July 1996)
    • Dueling at the College of William & Mary, 1800-1810 (June 1999)
    • Honor and Violence in Virginia, 1607-1861
    • The Social Origins of Dueling in Virginia
    • Virginia and the Origins of the Violent South
  • Red Ochre
  • In Search of Pliny’s Fountain
    • Preface
    • The Big Celebration
    • Solving the Mystery of Ferrugo and Ferrugineus
    • Agricola & Acidulae
    • Joan Baptista Van Helmont
    • In Search of an English Spaw
  • Lee Harvey Oswald, David Ferrie & the Civil Air Patrol in New Orleans
    • Charlie Kerr
  • “Old Men for Counsel, Young Men for War”
  • Nuked!
    • Chapter 1 | I Don’t Know About You, But I’d Swear Beirut Was Just Nuked!
    • Chapter 2 | The Telltale Crater & Nuclear Smoking Gun
      • Appendix
  • The Telltale Crater
    • Oklahoma City 1995
    • Oppau 1921
    • Lochnagar 1916

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