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Friday, May 3, 2024
Links 3 May 2024
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James Prader, Pan and Bacchante, 1834 At Crooked Timber, a discussion of culture wars and what they have to do with elite education and not...
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Thursday, May 2, 2024
Doing Honor to African History
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These days most American and European historians of Africa want to do honor to Africans. But they take very different approaches to doing th...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Augustine on Friendship
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Augustine will never be alone. When he returned to Thagaste, he formed a core of abiding friendships. Boys who had grown up with him as fell...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Baiae
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We humans have strange ideas about risk. For example, the ancient Romans were perfectly aware of the risk posed by the volcanic features aro...
Monday, April 29, 2024
The Battle of Summerdale and the Witch's Prophecy
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In 1529 there was a small battle on the Island of Orkney, known as the Battle of Summerdale. This was, in the best tradition, a fight about ...
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Saturday, April 27, 2024
A Week in the Field
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I was in the field for four days this week, with long commutes, so not much time to write. Here is one archaeological find, a sherd of a kin...
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Lewis Hyde, "Trickster Makes this World"
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Trickster Makes this World (1998) is a semi-famous book about twentieth-century art, 90 percent of which focuses on the worldwide myth of t...
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Links 26 April 2024
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Rock Art Depicting a Battle Scene at Segar, Algeria, c. 3500-5000 BC The FTC bans most non-compete clauses , which keep many workers from ju...
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The Wisteria House
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My neighborhood was developed in stages. The first phase took place in the early 1900s, when part of it was divided into 2- to 5-acre lots; ...
Belief vs. "Belief"
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Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? In the New Yorker , Manvir Singh asks a much better question: how do people believe in conspi...
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Cormorants and Mayapples
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Spent Friday back on the Potomac, a day made interesting by two signs of progressing Spring. Down on the river, something was clearly happen...
Helen Rountree and E. Randolph Turner III, "Before and after Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors"
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Helen Rountree (born 1944) has long been the leading historian of Virginia's Indians. She turned a girlhood obsession with Pocahontas in...
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