Brendan Gillis, AHA’s director of teaching and learning, and I will be attending the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies in Boston from November 20–23. We can be reached through the conference app or by email beforehand. Brendan […]
The National Archives, in partnership with Forces War Records, the leading military family history website from Ancestry®, has launched a digital collection of Royal Flying Corps and successors: World War One Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards. The collection contains almost
Politics and Society in Mid Thirteenth-Century England: The Troubled Realm By Peter Coss Oxford University PressISBN: 9780198924289 The English government under King Henry III faced significant political turmoil as tensions between the crown and the nobility escalated. This book delves
The team used A.I. algorithms to combine more than 400,000 photos into a comprehensive, three-dimensional model of the Catholic church. Microsoft People around the world can now explore St. Peter’s Basilica from the comfort of home via a 3D replica
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three
SHOW NOTES: Sources: Richard Gere presenting at the 1993 Oscars “Kubrick is Keeping Mouth Shut on Eyes” by David Gritten, LA Times April 21, 1996 “Enigmatic Kubrick Plays the Phantom Director” by Richard Brooks, The Observer November 17, 1996 “Genius
What is it, why do we have it, and why hasn’t it changed? Born from a rushed, fraught, imperfect process, the origins and evolution of the Electoral College might surprise you and make you think differently about not only this
Boundaries of the lost state of Franklin. Wikimedia Public Domain. It’s one of many tales of the founding of America. Settlers from England were exploring more and more of the New World, and as they did, they set up new
The horse was once as essential to Western life as the six-gun, and breaking horses was once a necessary skill, even a business for a few tough, enterprising souls. Eventually it became a competitive rodeo event in which working cowboys
This bust was found in the Licinian Tomb in Rome. It is thought to be Crassus, although this is disputed. Source: Sergey Sosnovskiy, available here. Led by Crassus, one of Rome’s wealthiest men and a member of the First Triumvirate,
