From the Dalton Daily Citizen-News, an announcement about Reinhardt history major Hannah Mayo Harris ’13:
Coming home: Harris leaving Murray County, returning to Dalton High as head girls basketball coach
Basketball is coming full circle for Hannah Harris.
The Dalton High School […] Continue Reading…
Heather Mallick in the Toronto Star (hat tip: Ron Good):
Defoe’s 1722 followup [to Robinson Crusoe] was A Journal of the Plague Year, an autofiction look-back to the plague that had struck England and elsewhere 50 years before. From our standpoint, it’s remarkable how Londoners in […] Continue Reading…
My COVID-19 reflection has been posted to Richard Utz’s Medievally Speaking, along with some forty others.
Longtime readers will know that, prior to the Civil War, northwest Georgia was home to an iron-smelting industry – and that Reinhardt’s own Ken Wheeler has become quite an authority on it.
be-roberts.comI found this illustration at […] Continue Reading…
I am grateful for everyone who sends me images of my favorite saint. This post features a year’s worth, plus some others I found while cleaning out my office.
An Ethiopian miniature at the Hill Monastic […] Continue Reading…
I recently discovered an interesting blog post from David Parker from a few years back:
On September 2, 1858, speaking in Clinton, Illinois, during the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln made one of his most famous statements: “You can fool […] Continue Reading…
If there is one custom that needs reviving, surely it is that of the anthropomorphic map?
Cartographers… created these distinctive representations by taking continents, countries, and physical features of the Earth and then turned them into human forms. In other […] Continue Reading…
Are you doing a jigsaw puzzle during your coronavirus lockdown? Perhaps you’ll be interested in this short history of the pastime:
The origins of jigsaw puzzles go back to the 1760s when European mapmakers pasted maps onto wood and cut […] Continue Reading…
I was asked to contribute to a blog post on how medievalists are doing in these troubled times. Here’s what I came up with:
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Medievalists, particularly American medievalists, are usually starved for attention. They must work very hard to convince […] Continue Reading…
From Commentary:
The Year the Sky Fell
Review of Black Wave by Kim Ghattas
In the Greater Middle East, the year 1979 felt like the end of the world. Americans know it as the ominous date of the Iranian Revolution, the hostage […] Continue Reading…