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January 2013

January 22, 2013

The Chummy, Populist, Progressive Golden Age of Pirates

From Colin Woodard's The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the...

January 15, 2013

How History’s Most Popular Board Game Helped Defend The Free World

By the end of World War II, more than 35,000 Allied POWs had escaped from...

January 02, 2013

Was the Alaska Purchase a Good Deal?

When Secretary of State William H. Seward purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867,...

January 01, 2013

The Shape of Our Buildings Shape Us

In the journal Anamnesis, Wilfred McClay has an insightful analysis of urbanism and its relationship...

January 01, 2013

Ben Franklin Did Everything

Maira Kalman posts a charming illustrated story about Ben Franklin and the nature of invention: I...

October 2012

October 11, 2012

Why Food Insecurity Was One of the Most Important Causes of WWII

During World War II the U.S. consented to feed the world, says George Russell, and...

October 08, 2012

Sin and the Historian

John Fea on how Christian belief in human sin could influence the work of historians:...