From Huffpost (hat tip: Kate McGrath):
The Confederate General Who Was Erased
There’s a reason you won’t find many monuments in the South to one of Robert E. Lee’s most able deputies.
Some years ago, I went to a conference in Charleston. […] Continue Reading…
Pleased to have received a visit on Friday from two Reinhardt alumni escaping Hurricane Dorian: Grant Ashton ’19 and David Busman ’17. Mr. Ashton was a history major, while Mr. Busman was an IDS major and a Reinhardt MFA […] Continue Reading…
From The Times (hat tip: Daniel Mattson):
The first time I fully realised that Mugabe did not care what he did to his people to stay in power was in May 2005. I had driven in from Botswana and arrived […] Continue Reading…
Courtesy Wayne Glowka, notice of an interesting WWII-era country music song, Elton Britt, “There’s A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere.” I discover it’s popular enough to have its own Wikipedia entry. Lyrics, from Lyricsfreak:
There’s a star spangled banner waving […] Continue Reading…
My colleague Judi Irvine alerts me to an interview this morning on NPR with Gen. Jim Mattis, former Secretary of Defense, whose book Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead has just been published. Whatever one might think of the […] Continue Reading…
As promised, a post about L’Anse aux Meadows, an archaeological site of some importance, located at the northern tip […] Continue Reading…
Warning: this post is technical and pedantic.
Two years ago I wrote a post about the evolution of Canada’s coat of arms. Prior to Confederation in 1867, though, it seems that no colony regularly used a coat of arms. Instead, […] Continue Reading…
From Reason (hat tip: Alex Bryant):
The official 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which birthed the world’s first Communist state, came and went two years ago. But the revolution actually played out over five horrific years known as the […] Continue Reading…
Sociologist, economic historian, and world-systems analyst Immanuel Wallerstein has died at age 88. See his Development of an Intellectual Position for more on this remarkable individual.
Alan Harding, emeritus of the University of Liverpool and author of such notable works as England in the Thirteenth Century, Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State, and The Law Courts of Medieval England, has died in Edinburgh […] Continue Reading…