I regret that I did not have time to visit the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. The walk between my hotel and UNC-Greensboro allowed me to snap pictures of a statue of the city’s namesake, Nathanael Greene…
…and of […] Continue Reading…
From World Socialist Web Site (hat tip: Glenn Reynolds):
Q. What was your initial reaction to the 1619 Project?
A. Well, I didn’t know anything about it until I got my Sunday paper, with the magazine section entirely devoted to the […] Continue Reading…
From NPR:
Eat Like The Ancient Babylonians: Researchers Cook Up Nearly 4,000-Year-Old Recipes
What did a meal taste like nearly 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylonia? Pretty good, according to a team of international scholars who have deciphered and are re-creating […] Continue Reading…
• From Yleisradio Oy (Finland’s national broadcaster), news of the genetic origins of the Finns:
Iron Age DNA sheds light on Finns’ genetic origin
A new study suggests that during the Iron Age Finland was home to separate and different populations.
Researchers […] Continue Reading…
From the FHC:
Osiyo.
Waleska was the name of a man who lived in Cherokee County in the early 19th century and was quite a noted person in his settlement. He was distinguished for always wearing feathers from eagles that he […] Continue Reading…
From Literary Hub (hat tip: David Winter), an interesting proposition, excerpted from The Golden Thread by Karissa St. Clair:
What If We Called It the ‘Flax Age’ Instead of the ‘Iron Age’? Correcting the Historical Bias Against Domestic Materials
Archaeology has […] Continue Reading…
From Reinhardt’s Office of Communications:
The Funk Heritage Center will mark its 20th anniversary tomorrow, Nov. 21, with a special speaker and the opening of its newest exhibit, “Resistance & Resilience: The Cherokee Trail of Tears.”
Speakers will include Troy Wayne […] Continue Reading…
My friend Roisin Cossar writes on The Conversation about the recent floods in Venice:
The city of Venice was recently hit by the worst flooding in more than 50 years. Water in the lagoon that surrounds the city rose 1.87 […] Continue Reading…
An alternate view of The Myth of Andalusian Paradise that I blogged about earlier:
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise is a self-proclaimed corrective to a “wide-spread belief that it was a wonderful place of tolerance and convivencia of three cultures […] Continue Reading…
Some excerpts of recent articles I enjoyed.
• From the Guardian:
History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future
Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of […] Continue Reading…