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I have a daily Google alert for the word "medieval". Today it included a link to a Princeton University Symposium on Medieval Japa...

Part of the AHA's recently passed Iraq War resolution condemned the US Government for: suspending in certain cases the centuries-old w...

Mac Owens writes (originally, here ): I had the good fortune to read a fine new book about political dissent in the North during the Civil ...

The AHA is (correctly) in a tizzy over Executive Order 13233, signed by President Bush, "which overturned an executive order issued by...

Gee, I wish I could say I was surprised to hear (via Ralph Luker ) that the American Historical Association has approved a wide-ranging re...

Miraculous new communications technologies have suddenly appeared, transforming everyday life. Everything is moving discombobulatingly fast....

Providence, Rhode Island has been named to the National Trust for Historic Preservation " Dozen Distinctive Destinations " ( vi...

History Channel ran " The Dark Ages " this past Sunday night. I recorded it and finally got around to watching it over the last co...

Historian Victor Davis Hanson has seen 300 and makes some interesting observations . Hanson thinks it is effective art that calls upon his...

via James Taranto is news that the Cherokee Nation has voted "to revoke the citizenship of the descendants of people the Cherokee on...

From the NY Times : Three weeks ago a handful of reporters at an international press junket here for the Warner Brothers movie “300,” about...

By now, most have heard of the report that Veep Al Gore's mansion in Tennessee consumes way more energy than, oh, about twenty bourgeoi...

As they say here in Rhode Island, "Not for nuthin', but...." if I were a horse, it'd be this: The Comtois Horse : The Comt...

At NRO, John Derbyshire posted that he was wary of attempts to overly-Christianize the Founders (as part of his general antipathy towards a...

I've been "tagged" for the first time ever! But this one has some, er, thought behind it. Kevin Levin at Civil War Memory pi...

It's always fun when you find that old trunk in the attic, isn't it? Usually, though, the expectations of what could be inside far e...

{ Nota Bene : This is the first of an on-again, off-again series in which I plan on "Reviewing the Review" of history books that d...

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...