A doctor of history fixes broken stories.
I predict that in the future, Google (or whatever its parent company is called in the year 2525) will sell the entire Gmail database as a source to be mined for historical data. This will of course raise a host of issues concerning privacy, but as long as the search is restricted to a point [ ]
I am currently experiencing a higher than usual volume of student papers. I will grade your paper in the order in which it was received. Your paper grade is very important to me. You can t always be experiencing a higher that usual volume . Yes, I can.
I believe it was the great Robert Frost, the college history professor who wrote: The pillows are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep, And essays to read before I sleep, And essays to read before I sleep
On December 9th, I ll be speaking (in Dutch) about slavery in New York at the Pelgrimvaderskerk (Pilgrim Father s Church) in Rotterdam/ Delfshaven, the Netherlands. This is the church where the Pilgrims last held service before leaving the Netherlands and voyaging to what became Massachusetts.
Jim E. Brown s new autobiographical memoir, Brown on Brown: The Autobiography of Jim E. Brown; Vol 1: The Early Years (2021), is most definitely a book, in the sense that it contains the minimum number of pages required to be considered such, forty-eight. There is a lot of white space on these pages. One must [ ]
For a book I m writing, I ve spent an awful lot of time in the year 1883. It was a good year, more or less, and I m come to understand the manner of speech, the outlook of the people, and, in short, to breathe their air. As a historian once said, keep researching until you can [ ]
In a previous post, I presented an example of how a newspaper could provide an illustration without using engraved plates. In that case, it was a map of Spain made simply by typing the names of cities in such an order on the page to approximate their actual relative locations. In a 19th century history [ ]
by Blue, the cat. Make sure you have a writing utensil. Check if it is sharp. Look to the ceiling for inspiration. Look to the table. Now you may start your writer s block.