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What Are We Really Voting for This Election Season, Asks "Douche and Turd," episode 808 of South Park1 comment

Jay Solomon wrote 3 days ago: As we arrive at day 72 on our countdown to vote for the next president of the United States of Ameri … more →

Tags: History, South Park, Army, Barack Obama, black, Candidate, change, Daily Show, Defecit

Stefan Collini: Common Reading8 comments

Leena wrote 1 week ago: Critics, Historians, Publics When I started reading this book, I somehow assumed it would be a gener … more →

Tags: Non-fiction: history, Non-fiction: biography, Non-fiction: essays, Non-fiction, Entries by Leena, essays, Literary criticism, Culture

Alexander the Great in India20 comments

stoa wrote 2 weeks ago: Alexander the Great, the Macedonian, grand general and irresistible conqueror, shrewd and charisma … more →

Tags: Ancient Greece, Biography, Egypt, Greece, greek literature, Hellenism, History, India, Latin Literature

The Pelasgians in the ancient historians' texts16 comments

stoa wrote 3 weeks ago: Profuse – at least in number.. – but rather confusing references we have received from the anci … more →

Tags: History, Ancient Greece, Greece, Ancient Egypt, greek literature, Epic, mythology, tragedy, archaeology

That Mitchell and Webb Look's "Fun Historian"

thehistoricpresent wrote 4 weeks ago: If you haven’t seen the British comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb on their many shows … more →

Tags: fun historian, mitchell and webb

How to Write a History Book, Part 3

rosewriter wrote 1 month ago: Historically Speaking is the bimonthly bulletin of The Historical Society. The Society’s inten … more →

Tags: The Writing Biz

Are British Historians the Best in the World?1 comment

h1storym0nkey wrote 1 month ago: Asked Juliet Gardiner in the Sunday Times yesterday. I couldn’t help feeling like channeling t … more →

Tags: Al Murray, Andrew Roberts, History, Juliet Gardner

Manet and the American Civil War - 1

Rene Tyree wrote 1 month ago: A recently received a gift of a book that I am thrilled to add to my library. It is, Manet and the A … more →

Tags: American Civil War, American Military History, Art, battle, book publishers, Book Reviews, Books, Civil War, History as Art

Blogging and Myth-Busting4 comments

Mark Stoneman wrote 1 month ago: Kevin Levin of Civil War Memory has posted good material to his academic blog under the category, Th … more →

Tags: Civil War, digital history, using and abusing history, academic blogs, Black Confederates, History, Scholarship, Weary Clyburn

CSI: Galactic Edition

rosewriter wrote 1 month ago: IO9, an excellent science-fiction site has publicized the exploits of the world’s greatest ast … more →

Tags: Historical Odds-and-Ends

100 Modern historians verify ancient Macedonians were Greek

historyofmacedonia wrote 1 month ago: Taken from http://history-of-macedonia.com/wordpress/2007/08/21/80-modern-historians-about-the-greek … more →

Tags: Modern Historians, ancient, Badian, borza, bossworth, errington, eugene, greekness, HAMMOND

The Last Books of Hugh Trevor-Roper

rosewriter wrote 2 months ago: It occurs to me that I should have been more specific in my previous post about the two books … more →

R. Don Higginbotham, RIP3 comments

rosewriter wrote 2 months ago: One of America’s foremost military historians, R. Don Higginbotham, died over the weekend, as … more →

Readings2 comments

roelder wrote 2 months ago: ‘You are fond of history! — and so are Mr. Allen and my father; and I have two brothers who … more →

Tags: Clio, History, Jane Austen, northanger abbey

The myth of Obama’s “apostasy”

alarob wrote 2 months ago: Historical myths and simplifications about a monolithic “Islamic world” are a besetting problem … more →

Tags: Islamica, Elections, 2008, Propaganda, Islam, obama, media

Political Cartoons: McCain is History

stushie wrote 2 months ago: A group of historians has announced that John McCain has no chance of winning the Presidential elect … more →

Tags: Politics, free speech, Political Cartoons, Cartoon Blogs - JM's Recommendations, Cartoon bloggers, editorial cartoons, In The News, Current Events, Political Issues

If Modern Medieval were a Deadjournal...4 comments

Jonathan Jarrett wrote 2 months ago: … then I’d just have found its mission statement I shall place the blame for the pligh … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Currently reading, Justification

Many Historians See Little Chance For McCain

plainsmanpolitico wrote 2 months ago: Politico: One week into the general election, the polls show a dead heat. But many presidential sch … more →

Tags: obama, Elections, Politics, McCain, Veepstakes, INTERNATIONAL, 2008, Democrats, Republicans

Encyclopaedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements

kbooks wrote 3 months ago: Featuring over 150 entries, numerous illustrations and valuable extracts of primary source material … more →

Tags: Kindle Edition, eBooks, Taylor Francis, anthropologists, Illustrations, sociologists, american ghost dance, cult heaven, ufo cults


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