First Floor Tarpley acknowledges the death today of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and consort of H.M. the Queen, at the age of 99 at Windsor Castle. May he rest in peace.
His arms, depicted on the funeral hatchment above, […] Continue Reading…
Congratulations to Reinhardt’s Ken Wheeler, whose essay “How the Midwest Encountered Mass Consumer Culture” has just been published in The Sower and the Seer: Perspectives on the Intellectual History of the American Midwest by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. […] Continue Reading…
From Smithsonian Magazine (from 2013): an exploration of the idea that the standard North American keyboard layout was deliberately designed to be inefficient. Jared Diamond mentions this in Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997):
Unbelievable as it may now sound, that […] Continue Reading…
From adjunct professor Tim Furnish on Voices from the Hill:
American Grand Strategy seems to be going back to the future — a 19th-century one of “Great Power Competition,” that is.
This process began under Obama, ramped up under Trump, and is […] Continue Reading…
Congratulations to the newest members of Reinhardt’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the honor society for students of history: Annabelle Forrester, Addyson Huneke, Jessica Landers, Marissa Liguori, and Gianna Sanders. This year’s ceremony took place this afternoon in the […] Continue Reading…
From UPI (hat tip: Instapundit):
Wright brothers’ wing fragment to take flight again on Mars
A piece of cloth from the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903 is set to become part of aviation history again — this time on Mars.
Carillon […] Continue Reading…
From Paul Halsall, a review of an interesting new book:
Ruth Goodman, The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal Into Victorian Homes Changed Everything (2020).
Despite the title the book really discusses the replacement of wood fires by coal fires […] Continue Reading…
From The Guardian:
Why can’t Britain handle the truth about Winston Churchill?
Priyamvada Gopal
A baleful silence attends one of the most talked-about figures in British history. You may enthuse endlessly about Winston Churchill “single-handedly” defeating Hitler. But mention his views on race or […] Continue Reading…
I have discovered that Lost Mountain, an unincorporated part of western Cobb county, has applied for city status in order to preserve its semi-rural nature. The place had a role to play in the Atlanta Campaign, and is famous […] Continue Reading…
From the New York Times (hat tip: Sean Mulligan):
Walter LaFeber, Historian Who Dissected Diplomacy, Dies at 87
Challenging convention from all political perspectives, he mesmerized his students at Cornell, many of whom went on to hold foreign policy posts or […] Continue Reading…