5 Reasons Big Data Needs a History
December 21, 2015
Rebecca Lemov— Big Data is a topic that is big news, yet it is often raised in academic circles with trepidation. Here are some reasons why our understanding of big… READ MORE
Category: History
The Invention of the Mobile Phone
December 17, 2015
Gavin Weightman— What have an old compass and a primitive battery got to do with the invention of the mobile phone? It’s a long story spanning more than two centuries… READ MORE
Billy the Kid Meets Ned Kelly
December 15, 2015
Robert M. Utley— Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly lived and died at roughly the same age and roughly the same time, the middle of the nineteenth century. Though they… READ MORE
The Persian Wars: Why We Must Attend to Sparta
December 14, 2015
Paul A. Rahe— The study of ancient Greek history in modern times has always been Athenocentric. It could hardly have been otherwise. Much of what was written about Hellas in… READ MORE
Behind the Myth of Daniel Boone
December 1, 2015
Honor Sachs— In the early 1850s, artist George Caleb Bingham painted a now-iconic image of Daniel Boone leading a party of white families through the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky. In… READ MORE
Meet Ivan Maisky: Soviet Ambassador to London, 1932–1943
November 18, 2015
Gabriel Gorodetsky— Serendipity often lies at the heart of scholarly discoveries. Some fifteen years ago I launched a research project which culminated in the joint official publication of documents on… READ MORE
American History in Under Three Minutes
November 12, 2015
Want to know more about American history but just don’t have the time? Here’s the history of the United States of America in under three minutes. Check out the video and… READ MORE
A Timeline of Wine
November 10, 2015
Pop the cork on your favorite bottle of wine, kick back, and enjoy a timeline of wine from 60 million years ago to today. Further Reading:
Exile in Asolo
November 9, 2015
Holly Hurlburt— Eventually, Asolo casts its spell. Yet our beginning was inauspicious. My first approaches to this small Italian hill town nestled into the Dolomite foothills, as a graduate student… READ MORE
Orthodox Disunity in Ukraine
November 5, 2015
“Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you should be in agreement and that there should be no… READ MORE
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