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History

A collection of 253 issues

Wednesday

I've pretty much accepted Belloc's premise that the Roman Empire was an act of Providence: By providing a coherent, unified, stable, and cultured environment, news of the Lord's birth, death, and resurrection could spread and His Church could get established. Of course, if there

Thursday

Some things never change. Writing about Bacon's Rebellion (1676) in his People's History, Howard Zinn discusses Nathaniel Bacon's “Declaration of the People,” saying it “shows a mixture of populist resentment against the rich and frontier hatred of the Indians. It indicted the [Governor] Berkeley

Tuesday

Kontent from the Kindle Perhaps the most interesting passage from my Memorial Day Weekend reading. The author is writing about the shocking dearth of archeological remains from approximately 630 to 930 AD and historians' struggles to account for it: > Another school of thought, most influential in Europe, denies

Thaddeus on Howard

I still haven't gotten through Zinn's A People's History of the United States, partly because my attention has been diverted to early medieval history and partly because I bought the iBook version that doesn't work on my Kindle, but I've

The Fascist

H.I.F. For those who haven't made it over the TDE Twitter account, fascinating excerpts from Thaddeus Russell's Renegade History: "[W]hen the New Deal was created, few of its supporters in the United States were as effusive in their praise as were German

GKC

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

Wednesday

From the Notebooks I've started going back through books I read from about age 20 through age 40. The first book I pulled off my shelf was the first book I read when I decided (for whatever reason) that I needed to become much more erudite: Will Durant&

Saturday

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

Saturday

Roman History Finding myself firmly ensconced in middle age, there's one small thing I regret: I never sat down and focused on one thing for a prolonged period. Sure, I kept my life focused on the big things: getting my professional degree, doing my job well, raising a

Tuesday

Letters to Children: On History It's difficult to instruct you here, but I suggest you concentrate your reading in three areas: (1) Obtaining a general historical sense; (2) American history; (3) Classical history. (1) In order to understand much of what you read, you need a general chronological