Spinning Clio

With nominations for the 2nd Annual Cliopatria Awards opening soon, I thought I'd offer up some of my best/favorite posts over the past ...

Ralph Luker has announced that nominations for The Cliopatria Awards , 2006 edition will be opened on November 1. Nominations for the Best...

Apparently , there is a move amongst the ubiquitous "group of academics" to get rid of the terms "Dark Ages" and "M...

Writing in the Washington Post, Max Boot and Michael O'Hanlon propose a military path to citizenship and National Review's Stanley ...

Sarah Sutton of the Warwick Beacon (a local paper) writes: When Steve Insana, Buckeye Brook activist and champion of environmental preserva...

Around 3 years ago, Brown University president Ruth Simmons organized a commission to investigate the school's ties to slavery. As anyon...

In " How French TV fudged the death of Mohammed Al Durah ", Boston University professor Richard Landes describes what he has disco...

A couple weeks ago, I filled out a questionaire for the Tapera-DHH Survey of History Blogs , sponsored by Tapera and Digital History Hacks ...

To many here in southern New England, Autumn means it's time for King Richard's Faire : ...a vivid recreation of a 16th century Engl...

John Tierney: Suppose Nike’s founder, Phil Knight, asked taxpayers to subsidize a program for 16-year-olds to leave their homes to become “...

Mark Grimsley has tired of the "hand wringing" and proactively started The Military History Foundation : I have created The Milit...

JJC at In the Middle explains the significance of King Alfred's hemorrhoids by examining his biography. Of course, his biographer'...

Mark Grimsley takes issue with John Miller's piece about vanishing military historians, which I commented upon earlier this week. [Fu...

John J. Miller (via PDTR ) investigates why military historians are become scarce on college campi. He quotes Mary Habeck, a military hist...

I wish they had this when I was a kid: Hundreds of elementary and middle school students will "go medieval" for a day as the Hist...

Pope Benedict has elicited Muslim outrage because he cited and quoted a medieval emperor's musings on Islam, faith and reason. (See!!!...

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...