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Editorializing dogs
The blog Baudrillard’s Bastard features an amusing and probably instructive perspective on the activities of dogs in history. I found this link via Walking the Berkshires’ early modern hi… more »
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Tough, tough history for tough, tough boys.
h1storym0nkey wrote 6 days ago: Grrr! Proving, if nothing else, that the place for unreconstructed masculinity is in the past. … more »
Editorializing dogs
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tellhistory wrote 3 weeks ago: The blog Baudrillard’s Bastard features an amusing and probably instructive perspective on the … more »
PEI: Happy Birthday Anne!
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tellhistory wrote 4 weeks ago: Forever youthful, Anne Shirley turns 100 this year. Women and girls often arrive on PEI with an inte … more »
Dayton History Day
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tellhistory wrote 1 month ago: “It’s not just a day, it’s an experience. . .“ The Dayton Public Schools sho … more »
Historical winners...
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Luke_D wrote 1 month ago: There is a general historical myth which explains simply that “history is written by the winne … more »
PEI: Student Employment and the “Storied Past”
tellhistory wrote 2 months ago: Three seasonal activities—agriculture, fishing, and tourism—are the backbone of the Prince Edwar … more »
History Works
tellhistory wrote 2 months ago: On Wednesday, March 5, more than 200 people involved in historic preservation, archives, museums, ar … more »
PEI Links
tellhistory wrote 2 months ago: I was surprised to find Tellhistory among the top sites in Google searches on “rum running.” Mos … more »
Early Modern Notes: Alternatives to Execution
tellhistory wrote 2 months ago: Sharon Howard included Tellhistory on her Blogroll so I’ve been reading her blog, Early Modern … more »
If you wrote history in the 19th century....
Rene Tyree wrote 2 months ago: Russel Nye (1913-1993) provides a glimpse of what was expected of you if you wrote history in the ea … more »
race, race, nothing but race
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Rachel wrote 3 months ago: I’m kind of perturbed by this article in the New York Times on rising ethnic discontent in Mal … more »
Reading the Clouds: Digital Storytelling
tellhistory wrote 3 months ago: As I listen to the Center for History and New Media’s Digital Campus podcasts, I follow their link … more »
A Register of Very Special Places
tellhistory wrote 6 months ago: Santa’s Workshop, a 1940s era theme park in Wilmington, New York, is still pulling in “believer … more »
Moonshine and Rum-Running in Anne's Land
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tellhistory wrote 7 months ago: The Wax World of the Stars, Fan-taz-ma-goric Museum, King Tut’s Tomb, Santa’s Woods, and Grandp … more »
August 29, 1964 "Mary Poppins"
hollyspinner wrote 8 months ago: On August 29, 1964 Walt Disney released “Mary Poppins”. The film, based on the book … more »
simon winchester: the meaning of everything
Rachel wrote 1 year ago: this book — the story of the conception, genesis, derailing, struggle and eventual completion … more »
