From Pushkin House, a blog post about Stalinist humor (hat tip: Ron Good):
Stalinism. The word conjures dozens of associations, and ‘funny’ isn’t usually one of them. The ‘S-word’ is now synonymous with brutal and all-encompassing state control that left […] Continue Reading…
I quite liked this remembrance of Susan Reynolds, by Jonathan Jarrett:
In celebration of the life of Susan Reynolds
It has become all too frequent a thing, as I get older and those who have helped me along my career remain the […] Continue Reading…
From YaleNews:
Donald Kagan, celebrated historian of the ancient world and revered teacher
Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics and History, prominent for his scholarship, teaching, and social and political commentary, and a longtime colorful figure at Yale, died Aug. […] Continue Reading…
From Julia Gaffield in the Washington Post (hat tip: Dan Franke):
Five Myths About the Haitian Revolution
This month marks the 230th anniversary of the beginning of the Haitian Revolution. In August 1791, enslaved people in the French colony of Saint-Domingue […] Continue Reading…
The City of St. Louis, founded on the west bank of the Mississippi River just south of its confluence with the […] Continue Reading…
A day out yesterday in Illinois and Missouri allowed us to see some interesting things, including some historic flags. As is my habit, I carefully collected them for display here!
At the Fort de Chartres museum, […] Continue Reading…
Sad news: the great Susan Reynolds has died, per Pauline Stafford on Twitter. Susan was the author of Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300 (1984), which I found very useful for my work. She was most famous for […] Continue Reading…
The former director of Reinhardt’s Funk Heritage Center, Joe Kitchens, has penned an interesting post on Longleaf Journal:
Most of us have a tendency to “conflate” what we learn about specific periods of history so that we often fix in our […] Continue Reading…
Another nineteenth century presidential home and museum is the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in Grantwood Village, St. Louis, Missouri. This one is run competently by the National Parks Service. (Grant’s papers are at Mississippi State University in […] Continue Reading…
A recent trip through Tennessee allowed us to see two presidential museums: Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage in Nashville and the President James K. Polk Home and Museum in Columbia.* Both are quite enlightening in their way.
The Hermitage, first acquired by […] Continue Reading…