Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Mortimer, Ian Ian Mortimer, who has been an archivist and a poet before becoming a medieval historian and biographer, describes why a blend of empathy and evidence is the key to getting the most out of history.
USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Historian James M. McPherson's book, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief , comes in the midst of a heated presidential ...
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
In his young years, the soon-to-be Soviet leader was an authentic gangster. That is part of what a British historian reveals in "The young Stalin". The author had access to the most secret archives of the Russian empire.
Danwei (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Beijing News October 7, 2008 Yan Chongnian (阎崇年), a scholar specializing in Qing history and Manchu culture, was attacked on October 5 when he was in Wuxi to promote his new book, The Kangxi Emperor . The prolific author was smacked twice in the face, allegedly because the attacker disagreed with his historical views. Yan is the director of the Manchu studies department at the Beijing Academy...
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Tonight Mexican historians are seeking criminal charges against the organisers of a Placido Domingo concert on Saturday - insisting they violated archaeological laws.The opera tenor performed at the Chichen I… Read the full article here
uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
Listen to today’s Subversive Historian Alan Ginsberg’s “Howl” by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman Fifty-three years ago on this day in people’s history, Alan Ginsberg recited his classic poem “Howl,” publicly for the first time. On October 7th, 1955, the beat poet seized an audience at Six Gallery in San Francisco. The famous [...]
XDA (Free subscription) | yesterday
On this day in 15 BC, Nero Claudius Drusus, also known to historians as Drusus II and Drusus Minor, was born. He was the only child of the Emperor Tiberius and first wife Vipsania Agripinna. Don't pretend you know who he is; he's not the Emperor Nero. Here are bits from wikipedia about Drusus Minor, who was poisoned at age 37 by his cheating wife Livillia. By 23 it looked as if Drusus, who made no...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Mexican historians are seeking criminal charges against the organisers of a PLACIDO DOMINGO concert on Saturday (04Oct08) - insisting they violated archaeological laws. ...
History of Economics Playground (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
In the last issue of Modern Intellectual History, one of the journal that I encourage you to look at from time to time I stumble upon an interesting review article by Daniel Geary. In this piece, he makes a distinction between “discipline history” and “intellectual history”, a distinction he borrowed from an earlier and interesting [...]
Civil War Memory (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Today I received a mailing from the Civil War Preservation Trust asking me to sign an enclosed statement addressed to Lee Scott, President and CEO of Walmart. It looks like I have been included in a group of historians asked...
uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Listen to today’s Subversive Historian The Terrorist Bombing of Cubana Flight 455 by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman Thirty-two years ago on this day in people’s history, a terrorist attack brought down Cubana Flight 455. On October 6th, 1976, all seventy-three people aboard the commercial jetliner were killed during an overlapping flight from Barbados [...]
Matt Hester's WebLog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
For this month I have chosen a spooky story in the spirit of Halloween The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is fantastic story about an age old tale about Dracula. Elizabeth does a great job of putting a wonderful twist on an old tale. We have all seen the movies and heard about traditional Dracula tales. However, Elizabeth takes this great tale and adds to it a very compelling way. The concept is fairly...
Trench Fever (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
…is the Institute for Historical Research’s network for postgraduate historians. It runs a seminar, at which Rob Dale, a PhD student at QMUL who has the bad luck to have me appointed as his ‘mentor’ will be speaking at the end of this month. And it has a blog, which I’ve now added to the [...]
BlogHer (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
A popular African proverb counsels, "Until lions have historians, hunters will always be heroes." Today, I am asking BlogHer readers to help two groups of young lions get excited about studying history by experiencing it first-hand.
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Are the editors and agents who said it would be impossible to write or publish a worthwhile postgame recap of the 2008 election having second thoughts now that the race has turned out to be so much fun? Michael Takiff, an oral historian preparing to go out with a proposal for precisely that kind of book, hopes they are. His literary agent, young up-and-comer Jason Ashlock of the Marianne Strong Agency,...
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highman | 06/15/2008
"The Priestess," written by Chaldranian and renown Armenian screenwriter Anahit Aghasaryan, draws inspiration from "an anonymous woman" recorded in the mysterious Fourth Century manuscript 'The History" by Armenian historian Agathangelos. This unknown, yet consequential woman, becomes the keystone to Armenia's history as the first nation to accept Christianity. Chaldranian uses this engaging plot...
kenmofford | 05/31/2008
Fox News analyst Liz Trotta joked when asked in an interview with Fox host Eric Shawn about Hillary's Robert F Kennedy controversial remark and called for the assassination of both Osama Bin Laden and Barack Obama. Trotta who is a former Washington Times editor and three-time Emmy winner clearly wasn't thinking (or was she?) when publicly stating "And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion
robertoms2003 | 11/20/2007
Jewelry (joias) is a fascinating fashion accessory that has been popular from ancient times. It has played a variety of roles including political, religious and ornamental, and jewelry artefacts have helped modern historians shape pictures of the daily lives of ancient civilisations. Jewelry in ancient Rome is no exception. There are literary accounts and pictorial depiction such as in the Regina...
