So up, and to the Office till noon, and then home to a little dinner, and thither again till night, mighty busy, to my great content, doing a great deal of business, and so home to supper, and to bed; I finding this day that I may be able to do a ... Sigue leyendo

Le Grand Palais à Paris présente jusqu’au 17 février seize des plus belles maquettes de la collection du Musée des Plans-Reliefs à Paris, de Louis XIV à Napoléon III. viaLes Google Maps de Louis XIV | Next. Sigue leyendo

The Naval War College is advertising for an associate professor in the maritime history department. As the ad makes clear, the individual hired to this position will eventually become the next Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History.What the ... Sigue leyendo

Many months ago I set upa Facebook page for this blog where folks could like the page and could haveyet another way to keep up with updates.   Lastweek I was surprised to see someone had placed something on my wall that reallymade m... Sigue leyendo

So, term started, and there was a short hiatus, for most of which this post was in draft. But, it’s actually a little hard to work out how to address the papers given at the Digital Diplomatics 2011 conference briefly. I don’t want to go on at the... Sigue leyendo

Prague MonitorCzech archaeologists have found a long lost temple from the Meroe period near the town of Vad Bon Naga in Sudan, Pavel Onderka, from Prague's Naprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures, told journalists yesterday.The lar... Sigue leyendo

For many years we had an annual pilgrimage to a local tree farm to pick out our Christmas tree. This was a ritual that even I - someone jaded at Christmas hoopla and commercialism - actually looked forward to enjoying, and our large family would ... Sigue leyendo

A spectre is haunting UK higher education, that spectre is 1968. The protests which took place during the late 1960s represent the high water mark for student activism in Europe and abroad. Inspired by student protests and the civil rights movemen... Sigue leyendo

Christopher Columbus gets blamed for lots of things from being a poor manager to being one of the causes of the mass genocide in the new world. However, one thing he is not associated with is global climate change. Until now anyway... An article b... Sigue leyendo

After numerous formal and informal conversations during the Edubloggers Con, on the way to conference sessions, sitting the fringe of the Blogger’s Cafe, and doing a pub crawl around Philadelphia, I’ve come to a few conclusions. There is great agr... Sigue leyendo

North America's highest mountain was earlier named for gold prospector Frank Dinsmore, a native of Auburn.A prospector, Frank Densmore, spoke so enthusiastically after seeing the mountain from Lake Minchumina in 1889, that it was known for years a... Sigue leyendo

After teaching a semester of the history of medicine in the U.S., I keep my ear to the ground for news in that field that intersects with intellectual history (including the history of ideas). With that, this H-Law review---which I received courte... Sigue leyendo

The oath taking ceremony of Barack Obama, as the 44th President of United State of America is going to take place today that is January 20, 2009. I am writing this in India at 7.49 pm in way to feel the history as it breaths to life. I remember th... Sigue leyendo

So I ended up writing a bunch of new posts, spurred on by the encouragement from Pouya, and ended up just 'saving' them and letting them rot. Some were on current events, some weren't; some were diatribes, others were odes. The two posts that I ho... Sigue leyendo

Chers amis, Depuis quelques jours, vous avez sans doute remarqué plusieurs défauts d'affichage sur ce blog, ils sont simplement dûs au passage à la version 2 de la plate-forme Over-Blog qui m'héberge. Mon ami webmaster et moi-même sommes en... Sigue leyendo