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The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet

Posted on September 23, 2021 by jgood

Hobby Lobby is a chain of big-box craft stores in the United States, privately held by David Green. Green is a committed Christian: he is a major donor to evangelical causes and keeps Hobby Lobby closed on Sundays. This […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Archaeology, Biblical History, Commerce, Current Events, Iraq, Middle East, Museums

Banned Books, Again

Posted on September 22, 2021 by jgood

My observation is that we’re all hypocrites about freedom of speech. When it comes to speech we agree with, of course we’re in favor of it. When it comes to speech we disagree with, we have all sorts of […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Academia, Books, Commerce, Libraries

Dr. Seuss

Posted on September 17, 2021 by jgood

This post isn’t all that topical anymore, but a recent visit to the University of Minnesota’s Children’s Literature Research Collection has helped to answer a longstanding question that I had.

In March of this year, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the organization that […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Books, Children and Childhood, Commerce, Controversies

September 11

Posted on September 10, 2021 by jgood

I wrote the piece below on the second anniversary of the attacks in 2003, at which time my wife and I were graduate students at the University of Minnesota. The attacks were fresh enough in my mind that I […] Continue Reading…

Posted in History

Talk by Ken Wheeler

Posted on September 10, 2021 by jgood

From the weekly Reinhardt Eagle:

Dr. Kenneth Wheeler to speak at the Funk Heritage Center

During the Funk’s October Events, Dr. Kenneth Wheeler will discuss his book, Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829-1894, which details the […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Faculty scholarship, Funk Heritage Center, Georgia, Local History, Reinhardt

The Vinland Map is Fake

Posted on September 6, 2021 by jgood

From YaleNews (hat tip: Dan Franke): 

The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and conservation scientists at Yale has found compelling new evidence for this […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Forgery, Libraries, Manuscripts, Maps, Vikings

Herbert Hoover

Posted on August 31, 2021 by jgood

One final presidential site for this summer: the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa, just west of Iowa City. We stopped in while en route from Minneapolis to St. Louis. To my annoyance the management […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Museums, Presidents, Travels

Museums in St. Louis

Posted on August 31, 2021 by jgood

In addition to the Civil War Museum, enjoyed a couple of other interesting ones:

• The World Chess Hall of Fame in the Central West End. It’s not a history museum as such, but it’s very well done. At the […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Africa, Ancient History, Archaeology, Art and Art History, Design, Leisure, Museums, Travels

The Civil War in Missouri

Posted on August 15, 2021 by jgood

Missouri was a slave state, but never an actual member of the Confederacy. Two factions claimed to represent Missouri’s legitimate government, but only the Unionist one retained control of it. With war looming in 1860, Governor Robert Marcellus Stewart […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Civil War, Confederacy, Missouri, Nineteenth Century, Travels, United States

Mayday Books

Posted on August 14, 2021 by jgood

Mayday Books has existed on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota since the early 1990s. It was an institution when I was in graduate school and I notice that it’s still going strong. It even has its […] Continue Reading…

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