An interesting article on HubPages from Liam A. Ryan, about Ireland’s Starry Plough flag. Excerpts:
The original Starry Plough flag was first adopted by James Connolly’s Irish Citizen Army in April 1914. The original design had the symbol of a […] Continue Reading…
Here is the text of my piece promised earlier this summer, which has appeared in Canton Family Life.
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The engineering major asks “How does it work?”
The business major asks “How much will it cost?”
The liberal arts major asks “Do you […] Continue Reading…
“History is no panacea for our national ailments. But a nation cannot forget its past, obliterate it, subdivide it into micro-histories, alter it, and bury it. Too often in the last half-century, Canadians seem to have done just that, […] Continue Reading…
Apologies for my long absence this past month, dear reader, as my family and I were on an extended road trip through Atlantic Canada, with a return leg through Quebec and Ontario. We saw and learned a lot, and […] Continue Reading…
Some saddening news:
The study of history is in decline in Britain
As the country navigates a historic period, it is losing its skill at interpreting the past
Whatever you think about recent events in Britain, you cannot deny that they qualify […] Continue Reading…
From the National Post:
A century after the Treaty of Versailles, its anniversary passes largely unobserved
The treaty that formally ended the First World War was widely seen as a failure, but to forget about it is to risk romanticizing the […] Continue Reading…
Congratulations to Prof. Kenneth Wheeler and his students in IDS 317, whose article, “Black Student Experiences in the Racial Integration of Reinhardt College, 1966-1972,” published this spring in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, has won the 2019 John C. Inscoe […] Continue Reading…
From The Federalist:
Americans have a hunger to understand, explore, and connect with their history. Richly sourced, intellectually demanding accounts of the country’s defining moments and characters do more than break through the noise.
Indeed, historians are probably the scholars most […] Continue Reading…
• Philip Jenkins reviews Jay Rubenstein’s Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History (OUP, 2019)
By their own lights, the Crusades were remarkably successful. In a series of military struggles that had the church’s blessing, armed […] Continue Reading…
History graduate Hannah Mayo Harris ’13 writes: “This is coming a few days late, but I am so humbled and honored to be recognized by Fellowship of Christian Athletes women’s ministry and Mandy Ledford, who is one of the […] Continue Reading…