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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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8 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
A Collection of...
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2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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In Praise of the Preterite
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a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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Stoicism and Stress
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Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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But what about the rest of us?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
TheCollector
Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Prometheus and AI?
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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