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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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Comparative Economic Development in the Antebellum North and South