I mentioned below that there was always a strain of anti-British, republican sentiment among the denizens of British North America. The most glaring expression of this occurred in 1837-38, when simultaneous rebellions broke out in Upper and Lower Canada, […] Continue Reading…
Dominion Day
A happy Dominion Day to my fellow Canadians. To celebrate, I post something I found as the result of an image search.
Rubylane.com.It’s a nine-quartered Canadian coat of arms from a Wedgewood plate manufactured c. 1910. […] Continue Reading…
UPDATE
To a post from a few years ago:
Brilliant Maps.This is what North America would have looked like had Nathaniel P. Banks’s Annexation Bill of 1866 passed into law, and been accepted by the United Kingdom. […] Continue Reading…
George Floyd Square
A trip to Minneapolis allowed us to see George Floyd Square, an urban autonomous zone parallel to Seattle’s CHAZ or “Free Derry” from the early 1970s. It is centered on the intersection of Chicago Ave. and E. 38th St., […] Continue Reading…
No Easy Lessons
From the Financial Post:
In an uncertain time, forays into the past for advice are becoming ever more common. They often make for grim reading, like the attempts to harness the “spirit of the Blitz” in the United Kingdom post-Brexit […] Continue Reading…
Areopagus
The Areopagus, according to Wikipedia, “is a prominent rock outcropping located northwest of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Its English name is the Late Latin composite form of the Greek name Areios Pagos, translated “Ares Rock” (Ancient Greek: Ἄρειος […] Continue Reading…
Romanticizing the Past
Pleased to note that my student Addy Huneke, who loves to study history, is resistant to romanticizing it. From her blog, The Music of a Story:
It’s Time to Stop Romanticizing the Past
I hear it all the time from many […] Continue Reading…
Paradise Garden
A followup to my post about Pasaquan: Paradise Garden, located between Summerville and Trion in Chattooga County, Georgia, is another visionary art compound, constructed by Howard Finster (1916-2001). Finster was a Baptist preacher and ran a bicycle repair business; […] Continue Reading…
Ottoman Printing
Here is an interesting essay by Anton Howes on his Age of Invention blog, proposing a reason why printing by moveable type never really took off in the Ottoman Empire. It’s quite long, so I skip to the conclusion:
The […] Continue Reading…
Another One
This historical marker stands in Athens, Tennessee. I took the photo in 2006 when we stopped there on our way north for a wedding (I discovered it just now in my photo library). I post it here as a […] Continue Reading…