Editorial Foreword

In stepping down, we feel honored to join this hardy tree of editorial ancestors.This, our swan song, is our thirty-third editorial foreword.With a tenure lasting "only" eight years and a bit, ours has been the shortest of the six editorial charges in the journal's history.It has also been an extraordinarily eventful time, and it is possible, perhaps even likely, that these variables are not unrelated.While CSSH continues to cling tenaciously to the masthead of outstanding, original, and above all empirically "thick" scholarship, and an old-school house style of