I am not ready to holler "blizzard" yet, but Northwest Ohio is in the middle of a strong winter storm that will dump as much as a foot of snow on the region by Wednesday evening. I think about four inches have already accumulated in my neighborho... Sigue leyendo

Saqqara Digging Diary Week 4The beginning of this week brought clouded weather and even a little rain, but then the weather improved and we had a number of days with glorious sunshine and high temperatures. All this helped to make great progress w... Sigue leyendo

This morning my brother John come up to my bedside, and took his leave of us, going this day to Brampton. My wife loves him mightily as one that is pretty harmless, and I do begin to fancy him from yesterday's accident, it troubling me to think I ... Sigue leyendo

Old News from Southern Maine offers interesting episodes in York County history. Such as when Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's honeymoon cruise was interrupted by gawkers.They were spotted off Isle of Shoals on June 6th by two New York press pl... Sigue leyendo

Ann Johnston was a friend of my current department, a sporadic visitor whom we were always pleased to see and a deeply engaged and scholarly numismatist whose interest was the more easterly Greek coinages. As I have most of this week been catalogu... Sigue leyendo

Reprinted with permission of World War II Magazine It is a hot August afternoon in 1944. The scene is Birkenau, that portion of the vast Auschwitz concentration camp dedicated to the industrialized killing of Europeans the Nazis regard as unworthy... Sigue leyendo

At some point during your high school government class or college Political Science course you had to read The Federalist. Jacob Cooke in the forward section for the collection of essays writes….the authoritative exposition of the Constitution [an... Sigue leyendo

Cette semaine disparaissait l’historien américain Howard Zinn, auteur notamment d’une Histoire populaire des Etats-Unis. De 1492 à nos jours et citoyen très engagé notamment contre la guerre en Irak. Voici une revue de presse des principaux articl... Sigue leyendo

Many will already know this, but just in case there are some who don't yet. The endowed chair in Palaeography at King's College, London is in danger of being cut...in fact the current chair holder David Ganz has already been informed he will be wi... Sigue leyendo

It appears I am on a philosophy of history kick this holiday season. I just read J. Maritain and N. Berdyaev on the Meaning of History and liked it. It is a comparison between Jacques Maritain and Nicolas Berdyaev's Christian philosophy ... Sigue leyendo

Are you a US History teacher? If so, I need your input. I’m working on a project for WGBH/PBS on the 1930’s. So I want to know how you cover it… If you have a moment, please complete the following form. [link] Thanks! 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