Spinning Clio

Who made Stonehenge and how? Was there really an Atlantis? Where was Gilbert Stuart born? : Such are the great questions of our time. With...

Alan Dowd , though he's not the first (or here ; and here for a rejection of the comparison), compares Bush and Truman: Contrary to wh...

The Introduction to Frank Lambert's new book, The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America, is available at the Princeton...

Here in Rhode Island, it was recently announced that a major development was going to built in Providence thanks in no small part to the av...

Here are a couple things that piqued my interest that I didn' t have time to blog about extensively during the last couple months. Lee H...

The Maine Journey: Experiences In Maine is a side-project dedicated to an educator who had an impact on my life. Now that I've wrapped...

In his NY Times review , Alan Brinkley summarizes the unholy trinity found in Kevin Phillips' American Theocracy : Phillips is scathing...

Michael Barone points to a couple excercises in counterfactual history by the American Enterprise Institute and by Gerard Baker . The not...

While poking around some of my medieval stuff, I came across some descriptions of the Islamic conquests . One of the factors that facilitat...

The Providence Journal is publishing a series on the place that slavery holds in RI history, calle The Unrighteous Traffick . The index t...

Well, after 3 years, I've finally completed my part-time pursuit of a Master of Arts in History . As I noted before, my MA Thesis is co...

I handed in my MA Thesis yesterday and will be sitting for my oral comprehensive test a week from today. Though I haven't been blogging,...

I mentioned that things would be quiet around here for awhile. Despite a few posts a couple weeks ago, I've managed to stay away. Well...

History Carnival XXIV has been wonderfully compiled by the Elfin Ethicist. As time is short whilst I continue prepping for the comp's, ...

Joseph Ellis is trying to put 9/11 in historical perspective. In particular, he asks, where does it rank in the list of events that have t...

U.S. News & World Report has an issue on Presidents at War that I plan on perusing. Looks like a lot of good stuff for those of us who...

I was wondering what Historians think/thought of Will Durant's The Story of Civilization series. I have one of the volumes-- Age of V...

Glory Road purports to be the true story of the famous Texas Western basketball team "with history's first all African American st...

Yup, still working at the real job and cracking the books, but I thought I'd call attention to Johan Goldberg's Liberal Reading list...

Before I go, I have to mention that Cliopatria has awarded The Rhine River as having the Best Series of Posts , and deservedly so. (Heck, I...