Hi guys, long time no talk! As I’ve mentioned multiple times previously as an excuse for not posting, I’m now in grad school. Things are getting highly chaotic, so this is not actually the best time to post. However, I didn’t post when things were less chaotic and now I’m avoiding grading my students’ assignments,…
One sub-genre of history I’ve accidentally found myself engaged in recently is that of the time traveler. These books ask, if you accidentally found yourself transported to this place and time in the past, how would you get by? It’s a fun question to consider, especially as a lot of the history we study is…
Hey you! Do you tend to go all-in on a topic once you start reading about it and then fall down the rabbit hole for weeks? I do. You know this about me. But perhaps your cup of tea is, for some reason, a topic other than shark-related disasters, naval disasters, or imperial exploration disasters.…
It’s hard to look away from the morbid sometimes. The gruesome details catch your eyes and linger in your mind, no matter how much you want to forget. In movies, the talented SFX teams have come far from the days of using chocolate syrup as blood à la “Psycho”. Of course, that means death can…
You may have noticed by now that once I get hooked on a subject, I really get hooked. I dive in and try to read all the other books about it I can – as a very obvious example, the quasi-historical TV shows I get obsessed with and then the very real history books explaining…
I know I promised a second Women’s History Month post, and I’ll get there, but I’m feeling inspired so we’re going to tackle this topic first. As we’ve established, I am a big history nerd. My favorite genre of TV show or movie is “vaguely historical but also full of violence and romance” which, thankfully,…
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