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Strange Maps - Big Think
A special series by Frank Jacobs.
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Ask Ethan: How long will life persist in our Universe? One of the most humbling aspects of our Universe is the knowledge that, with enough time, all things will eventually pass away. New stars and stellar systems, while they’re expected to keep forming for many …
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Steamboats Are Ruining Everything
A writer in Brooklyn.
By Caleb Crain. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Bright winter Prospect Park, 12 January and 17 & 18 February 2024
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Play the Past
Dedicated to thoughtfully exploring and discussing the intersection of cultural heritage (very broadly defined) and games/meaningful play (equally broadly defined).
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How Ubisoft Got Machiavelli Wrong in Assassin’s Creed About the author: Iván Goldman is a political scientist from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a Researcher at the Meridiano Foundation and the Argentinean Foreign Policy Research Group (GIPEA) of the Faculty …
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In the Middle
a medieval studies blog.
By Cord J. Whitaker, Jonathan Hey, Mary Kate Hurley. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
The Medieval Modern and Carrying on through Grief by Cord J. Whitaker I am trying to order my thoughts today. They have been disordered by the specter of global war in a world where democracy is dying in the face of fascism, where …
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History Unfolding
A historian's comments on current events, foreign and domestic.
By David Kaiser. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Back to Minneapolis In December I posted about the controversy over the death of George Floyd and the guilt or innocence of the police officers who were convicted of his murder, drawing in part--but only in part--on two …
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History of Knowledge
Research, Resources, and Perspectives.
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For the Love of Bread and Barches – The Very German-Jewish Challah Knife That Germans love bread seems to be one stereotype that is largely accurate. Given Germany’s rich baking culture, it is perhaps not surprising that it also has a long tradition of producing challot, braided loaves …
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Corey Robin
Corey Robin is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Arno Mayer, 1926-2023 The historian Arno Mayer, who had such an influence on my work and eventually became a friend, has died at 97. He wrote books on everything from the French Revolution to the First World War …
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Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog
The outlandish, the anomalous and the curious from the last five thousand years.
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The Wood Diva ***I’ve been absent for a couple of months because I was locked out of the account! Just to let you know that Chris and I continue to do our podcasts and there has been an …
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A Blast From The Past
Oddities, striking characters and incidents, strange days... this is history with all the interesting bits left in, by the author of Batavia's Graveyard, Tulipomania and The First Family.
By Mike Dash. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
The Sin-Eaters (a preview) Many apologies to subscribers who received a notification of a new post earlier today. Unfortunately this was an error on my part. I was working on an upcoming essay and managed to hit the “publish” …
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War and Security
History of war and current national security issues.
By Martin Gibson. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
British Troops Readied for Show of Force The Times has reported that next month the UK will to deploy 20,000 military personnel across eastern Europe as part of the NATO exercise Steadfast Defender. They will be accompanied by one of the Royal …
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The Invasion Network
Established to encourage collaboration between researchers working under the broad theme of invasion, with a particular focus on British invasion fears in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
By Dustin Risner, Ailise Bulfin. 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 More infoUpdated
Conference Report for ‘Britain Afraid: Imperial Insecurities and National Fears, 1798- 1945’ SUMMARY OF THE PAPERS Conference report for ‘Britain Afraid: Imperial Insecurities and National Fears, 1798-1945’, organised by Dr James Crossland and hosted by Liverpool John MooresUniversity in collaboration with the Invasion Network, 21–22 June 2022 …
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Mark R. Stoneman
Independent editor, translator, and historian.
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Juggling Social Media Platforms I quit the old bird site last December, and I’ve been a happy Mastodon user instead ever since. Nonetheless, I’ve recently begun dalliances with Threads and Bluesky. I’m not looking for greener pastures, but I’m …
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Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog
By Alex Wellerstein. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Henry Stimson didn’t go to Kyoto on his honeymoon The city of Kyoto was the only great city of Japan to be spared serious bombing during World War II, despite being among the top targets preferred for the atomic bomb, thanks to the unprecedented …
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Brian Sandberg: Historical Perspectives
Resources for Historical Thinking.
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Douglass Day Workshop The Newberry Library in Chicago is hosting a Digital Humanities workshop on Frederick Douglass during Black History Month. Undergraduate and graduate students in History at Northern Illinois University may be interested in participating in this …
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The Bibliophilic Blogger
"A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short" - Schopenhauer.
By Nicholas Murray. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
New Poetry Collection My new poetry pamphlet from Melos Press, The Dictionary Speaks, is now out and can be ordered post-free via this link.From the publisher’s blurb:-NICHOLAS MURRAY’S many books include poetry, two novels, critically acclaimed biographies of …