Historians Who Wanted to Be Journalists

Also: an end of a blogging era

In a short post about the overlap between journalism and history, I’d better not bury the lede:

Beth Allison Barr

is stepping down from The Anxious Bench.

I wasn’t surprised by yesterday’s announcement. Eight years is a long time to spend at a group blog. (I only lasted six at AB.) And I can only guess at the demands on her time, between teaching at Baylor, continuing to…