<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Thanks to all for important contributions to our deliberations about the place of history in contemporary policy development.<div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">Julie Cohn, Ph.D.<br><br>Non-Resident Scholar, Center for Energy Studies<br>Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, and<br>Research Historian, Center for Public History<br>University of Houston<br><br>https://www.bakerinstitute.org/expert/julie-cohn</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">email: cohnconnor@gmail.com<br>cell: 713.516.0849</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br>Author:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <b><i>T</i></b></span><i><b>he Grid: Biography of an American Technology</b></i><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(MIT Press, 2017)</b><br>https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/grid<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 6, 2025, at 12:55 PM, James Cortada via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Thanks Jonathan for sharing our ideas. Serious stuff we are all dealing with. Jim</div><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM Jonathan Coopersmith <<a href="mailto:j-coopersmith@tamu.edu">j-coopersmith@tamu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Jim,</div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> A belated thanks to you and Patryk Babirack for your Chronicle piece on the ROI of a college education -- Arthur Daemmrich and I cited it in our recent piece: </span></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“</span><a style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: underline;">The Road Not (Yet) Taken</a><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Historians As Policy Professionals</span><i style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">,” AHA Perspectives</i><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>May 2025, 18-20<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/the-road-not-yet-taken/" target="_blank" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/the-road-not-yet-taken/</a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Stay sane</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">,</span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Jonathan</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Jonathan Coopersmith</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Professor Emeritus</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Department of History</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Texas A&M University</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">College Station, TX 77843-4236</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">979.739.4708 (cell)</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">with Arthur Daemmrich, “<a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">The Road Not (Yet) Taken</a>. Historians As Policy Professionals<i>,” AHA Perspectives</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>May 2025, 18-20.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"></font></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">"'What Were We Thinking?' Space Commercialization, 1960-1990," in Brian C. Odom, ed.,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry. Early Space Age to Present</i> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). </font></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jonathan Coopersmith</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:j-coopersmith@tamu.edu" target="_blank">j-coopersmith@tamu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, May 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM<br>Subject: article of interest<br>To: Michael Geselowitz <<a href="mailto:m.geselowitz@ieee.org" target="_blank">m.geselowitz@ieee.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Or at least I hope it's of interest to you.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Jonathan Coopersmith and Arthur Daemmrich, “<a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: underline;">The Road Not (Yet) Taken</a>. Historians As Policy Professionals<i>,” AHA Perspectives</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>May 2025, 18-20<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/the-road-not-yet-taken/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/the-road-not-yet-taken/</a></div></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Stay sane</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">,</span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Jonathan</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Jonathan Coopersmith</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Professor Emeritus</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Department of History</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Texas A&M University</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">College Station, TX 77843-4236</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">979.739.4708 (cell)</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">with Arthur Daemmrich, “<a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">The Road Not (Yet) Taken</a>. Historians As Policy Professionals<i>,” AHA Perspectives</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>May 2025, 18-20.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"></font></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">"'What Were We Thinking?' Space Commercialization, 1960-1990," in Brian C. Odom, ed.,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry. Early Space Age to Present</i> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). </font></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br clear="all"></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="ltr"><div>James W. Cortada</div><div>Senior Research Fellow</div><div>Charles Babbage Institute</div><div>University of Minnesota</div><div><a href="mailto:jcortada@umn.edu" target="_blank">jcortada@umn.edu</a></div><div>608-274-6382</div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. 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