Spinning Clio

Late Antiquity, the Migration Period , or the Early Middle Ages ? Just askin'.....still waiting for Peter Heather's latest, btw. ...

Sometimes, we find things that interest us, we keep 'em, but can't really find a way to work them in to a post. Well, here are the r...

After examining the "mainstream" debate during the run-up to the actual showing of Path to 9/11 ( here and here ), I have to won...

The Moslem world sprawls around half the east, from the Pacific across Asia and Africa to the Atlantic, along one of the greatest of trade r...

InstapunK (via Glenn Reynolds ) asks some important questions of all of us regarding the too-often nasty and hyperbolic nature of post-9/11...

Wizbang has a comprehensive roundup of 9/11 remembrances, both old and new.

I already wrote about how ideological predispositions are clearly influencing the battle being fought over ABC's Path to 9/11 . Now, w...

ABC's " Path to 9/11 " has already managed to affect the way that the American public will look at the years leading up to tha...

On the heels of putting downloadable books on line, Google has announced that they will now make newspaper archives searchable and access...

Michael Barone , in referring to an essay by Walter Russell Mead about religion and foreign policy, describes Mead as: an appreciator and a...

It has been widely publicized amongst the bibliophile world that Google was scanning books and offering those images up for public viewing v...

Hmm. I see that " Metal Pollution From Medieval Mining Persists " (via Cronaca ), and that a " summer heat wave has unearthed...

Josh Manchester writes: Our attempts to compare every conflict to World War II or Vietnam hinder our ability to fight different kinds of wa...

James McCormick has a review of Brian Ward-Perkins The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization . I made a few comments, but still intend...

I'd recommend reading Danny Kruger's Prospect piece about the struggle between the two main political philosophies in Great Britain...

I'm back from 2 weeks of vacation. The one scholarly thing I did do whilst away was read this author dialogue (via Cliopatria) between ...

Well, time to recharge the batteries. I may peek in over the next two weeks, but during the first week I'll be tooling around here: and...

Michael Barone points to Nicholas Lemann who has a recent article that likens Blogs to the pamphlets of yore. I wonder if Lemann read AJS...

William Nolte (via Arts and Letters Daily ) begins his review of Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev's The Haunted Wood: Soviet Esp...

Walter Goffart, whose Barbarians and Romans was an important source for me during my MA thesis work, has written a new book ( Barbarian Tide...