The lesson of history is not that it has no lesson; the lesson of history is that only by patience and thought do we amid a thousand blunders slowly improve the lot of man. And to the study of man in this large sense the humanities and history must remain forever committed.
--Howard Mumford Jones
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- Happy Halloween 2011
- The American Dream
- Drusus' Camp, or, When the Romans Tried to Conquer...
- Castle, anyone?
- Inside the Mind of an Octopus
- Pumpkin Carving
- The Colors of Fall
- Still Mired in the Persian Gulf
- Reduce Spending on Nuclear Weapons
- Frost
- The Queen of the Inch
- The Real Nostradamus
- Shakespeare and the Power of the Counter Narrative
- The Bolshoi Reopens, or what "Grand" Really Means
- Indian Palaces II: Gwalior, Rajasthan
- Roman Boyhood, or, Some Things Never Change
- The Pope Reaches Out to Agnostics
- Paul Ryan Lies about Upward Mobility in America
- New Islamic Galleries at the Met
- Rick Perry Makes a Promise about Jobs He Should Be...
- Bristol Bay, Alaska
- Update on the Syrian Revolt
- Imperialists
- Immigration
- Banned from North Korea for Life
- Another Viking Hoard
- The Dark Side of Steve Jobs
- The LIRR Disability Scandal
- Banteay Chhmar
- Mongol Ships and the Divine Wind
- Indian Palaces I: Amer, Rajasthan
- Paradise Lost, Book I
- Median Family Income
- In Britain, Fights over Building Houses in the Cou...
- Yay, it's Endangered!
- Great News from Tunisia
- Treasure Hunting
- Not Knowing What to Do about the Economy
- The Scarecrows of Middletown
- Aphrodite Returns to Sicily
- Marriage and the Spectacular
- Irish Zombies and Archaeological Fashion
- A Sunny Day in Autumn
- Bridges of Amsterdam
- Missing Links Found
- A Van Gogh Drawing
- The Phillips Collection
- Today's Dumb Headline
- A Dead Mastodon, a Bone Fragment, and a Controversy
- An Arundel Tomb
- Senate Confirmation
- History
- Today's Statistic
- Rolling Downhill
- The Earth Really is Getting Warmer
- The Obama Doctrine
- In the Autumn Woods
- Gaddafi is Dead
- Libyan Rebels Control Sirte
- Grand Banks Cod are Finally Recovering
- Ancient Etruscan Image of Birth
- Occupy Wall Street and the Stumbles of Left Democracy
- In Bruegel's Backgrounds
- Dollhouse Murder Scenes
- Herat Citadel Restored
- Antietam was a Union Victory
- Antietam: Bloody Lane, Terrain, and Battle
- Faces
- Libya and Wall Street
- Why Everyone Needs Health Insurance
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has Filed for Bankruptcy;...
- Maryland Renaissance Festival 2011
- Herman Cain and the Koch Brothers
- Obama and Libya
- The Birth Recession
- Phoebe Cummings
- The Grand Re-Opening of Peirce Mill
- War
- David Hume's Tomb
- Why Americans are Fat
- DNA from Amphorae and Ancient Greek Trade
- Still Looks Pretty Good in Libya
- Monogamy vs. Polygamy
- 100,000 Year Old Paint
- Free Market Lemonade
- In Which I Agree with Michele Bachmann
- Rejected New Yorker Cartoons
- The Cain Mutiny
- Bosco Verticale
- Antietam: the Poffenberger Farm
- Drug-Induced Mysticism for the Dying
- Walking the Antietam Battlefield
- Kraken? Hints of a Giant Triassic Octopus
- In the Fields
- Agriculture and Historical "Revolutions"
- Thought about Book Reviews
- Antietam Furnace
- Redistricting Follies in Maryland
- Zaha Hadid, Evelyn Grace Academy
- Quite a Tree
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
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