The abridgements, written 4 days ago, The last post linked to a conspectus – the first – of the full table of contents of A Study of History (1934-61). Here (or top left) are the contents of the two abridgements. They can now be seen alongside the table for the whole work. The first abridgement ...

An Arthurian Wiki, written 3 days ago, Now is as good a time as any to come out of the closet as an Arthurian and plug my next great Internet venture: Quondam et Futurus: An Arthurian Wiki.*Here's my thinking. There's a wiki on the Muppets that lists every appearance of the Amazing Mumford. There's ...

Aug. 29, 1908 (Saturday), written 6 days ago, MELBOURNE GREETS THE FLEET: The U.S. Navy's fleet has reached Melbourne, Australia. The ships began passing Port Phillip Heads and entered the spectacular Port Phillip Bay (shown above, as seen from space -- long after the fleet left!) about 11:20 a.m. o...

Every Soviet poster no matter the date of creation bears a stamp of expressiveness and graphical quality. The attention to details is awesome.

News Briefs 05-09-2008, written 1 day ago, "History will be kind to me… for I intend to write it." It's the end of the world as we show it… Oldest American skeleton may have been discovered -- underwater? New object discovered orbiting the Sun *backwards*. More here. The comet-chasing ...

A Travel Through Time, written 1 week ago, I spoke at an event just outside Stockholm around 3 months ago on the return of monarchy in the future. The speech started off in the 19th century and ended up some time in the future.Here's a photo a friend was kind enough to take.I spoke with a Habsburg t...

stopes: for many a stamp too far, written 2 days ago, The café often reports on new stamp issues with a historical theme, so this report should be no different to those of the past. This time the UK's Royal Mail is producing a series of stamps in a series to...

Behind the Glitz—Heroes of the Overland, written 1 day ago, This year is the sesquicentennial of the Butterfield Overland Mail Route, the first transcontinental stagecoach line. Casey Gill will follow the trail of the BOMC next month and blog about it here. Behind the scenes, teams of dedicated Hi...

September 11, 1935 - Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov is born, written 2 weeks ago, Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov (born September 11, 1935 in the village of Verkhnie Zhilino) died on September 20, 2000. Titov was the second human to orbit the earth, preceded only by Yuri Gagarin. Wikipedia says: &q...

Military History Carnival #16, written 2 weeks ago, … is underway at Osprey Publishing

Happy Birthday To Us!, written 2 days ago, Today, ProgressiveHistorians is two years old. And just in time for that milestone, we've reached another: 160,000 unique visitors since this site went live. Use this as an open thread. (Read the full post at ProgressiveHistorians.)

What really matters, continued, written 1 day ago, In 1904, the explorer Roald Amundsen discovers that the earth's north magnetic pole has moved.  It has continued to move. [Source].Top of Ivar, near the Vedanta Society, looking toward downtown and HollywoodLawsuits have been filed...

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Reprinted from Scots and Independent, written 1 day ago, hursday, September 04, 2008The Scotsman And LITAs promised, here's the rebuttal to the Scotsman's continued vendetta against Local Income Tax. Anyone would think their editor might be in danger of paying a bit more or something the way they ca...

Hundreds commemorate Besland School terror attack, written 1 day ago, The entire world watched in horror as 300+ Russians, mostly small children died in a North Ossetia school that was held hostage by terrorists. A demostration in Moscow mourned the innocent victims and questioned the response by th...

Autumn Day, written 2 days ago, I got a spontanous urge to translate a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), probably because it's an autumn day outside. It is one of my favourites, one of those I know by heart. As usual, I went for closeness to the original rather than art in its own right; I wro...

Researching History: Libraries in Hanoi, Vietnam, written 4 weeks ago, by Mok Mei Feng There are several libraries in Hanoi, like university libraries and institute libraries. Over the summer, I visited three of them. Vien Han-Nom (Institute of Han-Nom Studies) 183 Dang Tien Dong street http://www.h...

HBCUs tops in making African American STEM Ph.D.s, written 1 day ago, Inside Higher Ed reported this week that a new document from the National Science Foundationsays that historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) educate a disproportionate share of African American women and men who go...

Anna Pavlova (1881-1931), written 2 days ago, To this very day, Anna Pavlova is considered the most famous dancer in the world. Anna was born on January 31, 1881 in St. Petersburg. Her mother was a washerwoman and her father was a reserve soldier named Matvey Pavlov whom Anna neewr knew. From the ti...

Japanese Prints Tell the Story of Modern Japan in Exhibition at the Ringling Museum, written 2 weeks ago, SARASOTA.- Selected works from the Ringling Museum's important collection of Japanese shin hanga and sosaku hanga woodblock prints, dating from the first half of the 20th century, are presented ...