Best in History Online: Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Jamestown Project
Review of The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007)
… The Jamestown Project. This book will surprise readers looking to delve immediately into the adventures of Captain … United Kingdom …
The Treaty of Waitangi
… settlements have recognized Māori tribal identities making some, but not all, tribes significant players in New … United Kingdom …
Who's Afraid of Jurassic Park?
… those long extinct dinosaurs fascinate us so? by Josephine King "\"I"fho's afraid of Jurassic Park? Not VV too many … propagating a one-shot explanation for creation, Josephine King has a degree in Geography and Anthropology from London … recordsocieties well before our advent changed breaking movie of the same name as well the way we view the …
Kitchen Wisdom
Review of Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen, by Wendy Wall (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
… recipes…offered practitioners the occasion for undertaking and scrutinizing nothing less than world making” (3). The recipe archive, she argues, offers a … portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces …
The Risks of Unilateralism
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The Origins of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
On January 1st, 1818, Mary Shelley, at age nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein.
1066: The Normans Conquer England
The Battle of Hastings, which took place on October 14, 1066 was a pivotal moment in the invasion from across the English Channel that resulted in the conquest of Anglo-Saxon England by William, the French Duke of Normandy.
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The “Shot Heard Round the World”: April 19, 1775 and the American Revolutionary War
… painted the British Redcoats as brutal aggressors, attacking civilians and destroying private property. In fact, as … as the exhausted Redcoats were pursued back to Boston, taking fire from all directions, including from inside and … discharged in the process of being loaded, thus provoking the volley from the British. But undoubtedly we will …
Why Afghanistan Will Not Be a Quagmire
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It’s Not How to Make a Bomb That’s the Problem, But Why
… legislation that would criminalize downloading bomb-making instructions from the Internet. Once again, the … the target of law makers who seek a simple remedy for making a complex world safe again. If only it were so easy. A major flaw in blaming the Internet for terrorist bomb making is that no one has ever sufficiently demonstrated that …
“No Victor and No Vanquished” - The Biafran War
Barely three years after independence from British colonial rule, Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, collapsed into a civil war.
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From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War
Review of Russia: The Story of War, by Gregory Carleton (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2017)
… that drive Russia’s war myth is also crucial to making sense of Russia’s behavior on the international stage … monograph for students and seasoned Russia watchers seeking to understand Russia’s war myth in its many … Harrison King …
50 Years Ago: the Beatles, Rock, and Race in America
… 1960s, Buddy Holly had died in a plane crash, Elvis was making movies, Chuck Berry was in jail, and Jerry Lee Lewis … Englanders along the river Mersey were still seeking inspiration from rock and rolls’ increasingly forgotten … United Kingdom …
Shakespeare For All Time
Review of Shakespeare For All Time, by Stanley Wells (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
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The War We Refuse to Remember
… where the Admiral of the Royal Navy James Gambier is shaking hands with the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, John Quincy … and will not commemorate its end either, and it is worth asking why. The notion that the United States had to … United Kingdom …
“No News Day” at the BBC
… that regard news as just another part of their profit-making enterprises. Newsrooms place a high priority on being … services — is any better. Political partisanship is even making its way into local news broadcasts. Reith wanted the … United Kingdom …
The Anatomy Murders
Review of The Anatomy Murders, by Lisa Rosner (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
… cobbler he and his mistress supplemented their income by taking in boarders. With so many itinerant laborers moving in … with the face just in case the authorities came around asking questions. As long as the medical practitioners of … United Kingdom …
The Battle of Bosworth Field
The Battle of Bosworth Field was one of the last major battles of the Wars of the Roses, a decades-long conflict between the House of York and the House of Lancaster over claims to the English throne.
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Russia’s Lost Empire
Review of Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to the Present, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2017)
… in former Soviet republics, especially in Ukraine . In Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to the Present , … inquiries under what he calls the “Russian question.” Lost Kingdom both investigates the historical development of this …
Time It Was: 1968 Around the World
… of Lyndon Johnson and not one but two major assassinations. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in early April, and Robert Kennedy …
Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later
… about the tragic couple and their mythic Camelot. Stephen King’s recent best-selling novel 11/22/63 (2012) tells the … that saving Kennedy would also “save his brother. Save Martin Luther King. Stop the race riots. Stop Vietnam, maybe … Get …
Giving Up on the Dream?
… the 1963 March on Washington. The march’s signature event, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech, continues to stir the …
Top Ten Origins: Catalonia (Catalunya) and Spain
… Peninsula, experienced stability as part of the Visigoth Kingdom centered in Toledo (in present-day region Castile-La … Mancha). In 718, Muslim invaders swept the peninsula, attacking cities in southern France. By 760, the Franks began … Muslims. In 801, Louis the Pious, the son of the Frankish king Charlemagne, captured Barcelona from the Muslims. …
