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• Guest column: SCORE Turns out Green Bay does have ghosts – Green Bay Press Gazette

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  Guest column: SCORE Turns out Green Bay does have ghostsGreen Bay Press Gazette"I talked to historians and found out that there were quite a few haunted places in the area," Freiss said. "I dug into each story, looked into information …and more »read the full article
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• Ginsburg on Lawrence Friedmans Comparative Law

  
  Legal History Blog — Authority: 477
  Lawrence Friedmans Comparative Law has just been posted by Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago Law School. It is forthcoming in LAW, SOCIETY AND HISTORY: ESSAYS ON THEMES IN THE LEGAL HISTORY AND LEGAL SOCIOLOGY OF LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN, Robert Gordon, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2010. Heres the abstract: ...
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• Virtual Reality Builds Ancient Architecture

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  Tracy Staedter chats with Jose Kozan, who is using virtual reality to build ancient architecture.
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• REVIEW: TCMS "GIGANTIC WORLD OF EPICS"

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 169
  The Fall of the Roman Empire is one of the films examined in the TCM special. By Lee Pfeiffer Premiering on Turner Classic Movies without the usual fanfare, The Gigantic World of Epics is a truly superb one-hour production produced by Dreamworks and filmed by the ubiquitous Laurent Bouzereau. The special manages ...
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• Sgt. Richard Kirkland For All Of Us

  
  Civil War Memory — Authority: 125
  I‘ve been thinking quite a bit about Sgt. Richard Kirkland lately.  Last week Peter Carmichael referenced Kirkland in his speech marking the anniversary of the battle of Fredericksburg.  Carmichael used the Kirkland story and his monument on the Fredericksburg battlefield to point out our tendency to glamorize the ...
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• Edward Gibbon

  
  Positive Motivational Quotes — Authority: 127
  “Style is the image of character.”
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• We Laugh Because it is Funny but also Because it is True: The Weakness of the Historical Method

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 126
  This amusing videoclip makes the same point that my polymathic amigo Dave Schuler likes to make about the true state of historiography about classical    antiquity : I will now let Dave speak for himself: ….Take the example of a single book, Plato’s Republic . The book was written in something ...
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• 10 Things I Don’t Want for Christmas

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 563
  While everybody else is busy publishing their “Top 10″ lists for Christmas and year-end, I thought I’d do something a little different… So here’s 10 things I don’t want for Christmas. 10. Excuses. I’m so sick of hearing excuses from people, rather than results. All the time you spend explaining why ...
  6 days ago

• History Channel Does Reconstruction Right

  
  Civil War Memory — Authority: 125
  Our tendency to distinguish between the Civil War and Reconstruction obscures the fact that fundamental questions of freedom, national identity, and citizenship were left unanswered. According to historian, Vernon Burton:At stake during the Civil War was the very existence of the United States. The bloodiest war in ...
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• Robert Keyserlingk, RIP

  
  Christopher Moore's Canadian History — Authority: 424
  Robert Keyserlingk, longtime Europeanist at the University of Ottawa, died recently. His widow recently reported the cause was asbestos , a product still mined and exported in Canada. In lieu of an obit, some of his works from Alibris.
  1 week ago

• Teaching Social Justice in the Classroom?

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 115
  I took the week off to get some things accomplished that I needed to, so my apologies for a lack of posting, but I have been taking daily assessments of the blogosphere and noted a few things which I will comment on now. There has been some controversy over the History Channel’s upcoming Sunday evening program , ...
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• The Exit-Strategy President

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Tomorrow’s historians may look back on this period and label it the “age of retreat.” After all, President Barack Obama has set withdrawal dates for U.S. forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, reversed course on missile defense in Eastern Europe and generally embraced a policy of realpolitik over the advance of freedom. ...
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• Will Greene’s Civil War Petersburg

  
  Civil War Memory — Authority: 125
  I know I promised to stay away until January, but I don’t really consider this to be a violation of my blogging hiatus.  My review of Will Greene’s book, Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War (University of Virginia Press, 2006), is included in the most recent issue of the journal, Civil ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Mystery Over the Internets True Birthday

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  It’s complicated. Some would argue that it was the fear of the Russians, after their’ launch of Sputnik in October of 1957, that motivated the US government to begin building this decentralized network. Some nitpicking historians claim the Internet was actually born in 1961, when Dr. Leonard Kleinrock first ...
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• Liberhan report used for character assassination: BJP

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday slammed the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya, saying the report is a “political document for character assassination”.Participating in the debate on the report in the Lok Sabha, BJP president Rajnath Singh alleged ...
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• History of Neck Tie

  
  Hotel Travel NewYork — Authority: 128
  History of the necktie. Long time back, neck tie evolved as a direct result of war. In 1660, a regiment from Croatia visited Paris. The soldiers were presented to Louis XIV, a monarch. At that time, the officers of the regiment had worn bright colored fashion handkerchiefs around their neck. These neck cloths which ...
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• A forgotten wreck

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Members of the Southampton Railroad Station Society plan to mark the 1921 crash of two trains near Bryn Athyn, which killed 27. For many area residents the train track on Creek Road in Upper Moreland is just that - a train track. But to some railroad historians like Charles Liberto, Frank Baldwin and Richard Mansley ...
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• Gordon Wood on Empire of Liberty

  
  American Creation — Authority: 475
  Since weve been on a bit of a Gordon Wood kick as of late, I thought some of you might enjoy the following video. Woods new book, Empire of Liberty has already caused some major waves throughout the historical community and it looks to be a surefire "classic" in the study of early American history.
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• Teaching Civil War Memory

  
  Civil War Memory — Authority: 125
  Today is the first day of the new trimester and I am once again teaching a course on Civil War Memory.  I have two sections with a total of 12 students.  Hopefully, the small sections will make for even more interesting discussions.  This is a reference sheet that I put together for one of my [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  Christopher Keltys book, Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software , can be read online, and I think parts of it will interest many here. It seems that programming languages, while mentioned, do not receive a lot of attention in this work. I would argue that they are a significant factor in the history ...
  3 weeks ago

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