Spinning Clio

Arnold Kling writes, in "Appreciating Our Moral and Mental Development ": In the study of history, the importance of mankind's...

Medieval Boat Found Buried in Israeli Lagoon: Much of the still-submerged ship is uniquely intact, with the stump of a mast still visible. O...

In " The Historian's Responsibility ", I wrote about recent pieces by Harvey Mansfield and Kevin Mattson concerning the role...

I've been reading Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill and can say that I essentially agree with this review by William Lobde...

Yesterday, my local paper (The Providence Journal , or ProJo as it's known locally) published an opinion piece by Paul Greenberg : Imagi...

As I recently blathered on about , I think that part of being a "good" historian is to tone down the rhetoric and hyperbole while ...

Historians Against the War is going to present a resolution at the Business Meeting of the annual American Historical Association confab...

In " Democracy and Greatness ," Harvard University professor Harvey Mansfield offers "an argument for the use of great books ...

Ivo Daalder & James Lindsay , co-authors of America Unbound , propose a new international organization--which they dub the Concert of ...

As most historians probably do, I have a habit of accumulating various articles that have piqued my interest over the years. In particular, ...

I previously referred to Alan Dershowitz's scathing review of former President Jimmy Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid . De...

The " Medieval Warm Period " is one of those scientific/political footballs that is constantly being passed around. As a medieval...

Frederick Smoler at the American Heritage Blog is rather surprised that a mainstream (web) 'zine like Slate would stoop to publishing ...

Left, Right and Center agree , European leaders are a bunch of unserious wannabes: MARA LIASSON: [T]he U.S. wants the European and other ...

In " The World According to Carter ," Alan Dershowitz (via ALD ) finds much wrong with President Jimmy Carter's "ahistor...

Ralph Luker points to a new book by Syracuse University professor Arthur C. Brooks called Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Com...

In 2001, Michael Novak wrote in Faith and the American Founding: Illustrating Religion's Influence: For a hundred years scholars have st...

...of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee.'" Today is the 31st anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, wh...

Anthropologist Clifford Geertz has passed away. Dr. Geertz's landmark contributions to social and cultural theory have been influential...