history

History is the study of written accounts of the past, encompassing all aspects of society: its political development, wars, cultural developments and everyday life. It is chronological, in that it assesses past events as they occurred sequentially. History is preserved and studied as a means of understanding both the past and the present which the former's events have helped to shape. It is not an objective science, though nowadays it is often classified as being a branch of the social sciences. 

History is usually taken to mean a written analysis of past events and human interactions, although oral history is an important area of study also. In certain types of traditional tribal societies, for example, oral history is a well developed and sophisticated means of transmitting the story of the past to the people of the present.

Many blogs are devoted to the study and discussion of history, some quite general and international in scope. Others focus on a certain geographical area, such as the United States, or a certain time period, such as the Middle Ages or the Edwardian period. 

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Original Technorati articles tagged “history”

• in Social Media
  What if Facebook Just Disappeared?
  Our entire lives are online. What would happen if we could no longer access all of that content?
  by kimmybabe74 / on Dec 11, 2012
• in TV
  Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis, Tuesday, October 23, on PBS
  Visit a time when “the world came so close to World War III and mutually assured destruction.”
  by missbobetier / on Oct 22, 2012
• in Film
  Stephen Gyllenhaal On The Kennedy Detail
  Award-Winning Writer/Director Stephen Gyllenhaal will write and direct The Kennedy Detail
  by makingsense / on Sep 20, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “history”

 

• From Maya Angelou To Abigail Adams: Read History’s Finest Letters Of Motherly Advice & Wisdom

  
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  I just got off the phone with my mom to wish her a good ol’ Happy Mother’s Day.  My parents live nine hours away from Montreal in northern Ontario, and the last time I spoke with her was last weekend when it was a hot & hazy 30C where she was.  This morning, however, she told me the ground outside is covered ...
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• [links] Link salad thinks of its mothers

  
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  The Latest on the Women in SFF Debate — Cora Buhlert with some interesting analysis and a number of links. That Monkey Don’t Swim: Maps, Sex and Violence — Pongoid anthropology and cartography. Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation — Kids today. Everyone knows the past is golden, ...
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• [links] Link salad thinks of its mothers

  
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  The Latest on the Women in SFF Debate — Cora Buhlert with some interesting analysis and a number of links. That Monkey Dont Swim: Maps, Sex and Violence — Pongoid anthropology and cartography. Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation — Kids today. Everyone knows the past is golden, ...
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• Vincent Louis “Chin” Gigante – Muscle on Both Ends Part I

  
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  Vincent Louis “Chin” Gigante, also known as “The Oddfather” for his largely successful efforts to dodge criminal punishment by faking mental illness, was a one-time boxer who rose from low-level enforcer to become don of one of the infamous “five families” of organized crime in New York City. Unlike most ...
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• Banquet Menus 1864

  
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  by islander1864 Hello all. I have been searching but cannot find any information on food served to delegates during the Charlottetown Conference in 1864 and surrounding events. Does anyone know if the banquet menus were ever documented? go to newest post
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• Very Strange Bedfellows 5

  
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  For my blog post today on Jules Witcovers Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew , I have five items. 1.  On page 186, Nixon criticizes Vice-President Spiro Agnews fraternization with Secret Service agents: "In all the period Ive been president and vice-president, ...
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• Famous Roman Tomb May Have Actually Been A Temple

  
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  Filed under: History , Learning , Europe , Spain At the Roman necropolis in Carmona, Spain , visitors are led to the popular "Elephants Tomb," a large underground chamber that gets its name from a crude sculpture of an elephant found there. Now archaeologists are saying it may not be a tomb at all, but ...
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• Romanticizing the American Revolution to Criticize the Arab Spring? Not so Fast

  
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  Live TV gives political pundits all kinds of opportunities to make silly observations about the world.  On Real Time with Bill Maher this past Friday night, conservative writer Charles C. W. Cooke made one of the strangest and silliest I’ve witnessed in quite a while.  When discussing the ongoing battles over ...
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• What You Say May Not Matter Anyway!

  
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  “What you do speaks so loud, that I cannot hear what you say.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson In today’s environment, Emerson’s words might be interpreted this way: The behavioral algorithms are so good it may not matter what your profile or social resume says about you––your behavior trumps everything! ...
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• This Week In Gay History May 12 – 18: Nero Marries 1st Gay Couple, Divine, Auntie Mame, and ENDA

  
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  ANCIENT HISTORY 54 AD - Nero becomes Emperor of Rome. Nero married two men in legal ceremonies, with at least one spouse accorded the same honours as an empress. Gay relationships are accepted and institutionalized in this time period. 1102 AD – The Council of London took measures to ensure that the public, ...
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• Film Cover

  
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  How to buy film covers for getting rights to use? How to buy the rights for film covers. So for example IMDB works with film companies, the companies recognize the site as a valuable advertising resource. Allowing them to use their posters is part of an advertising campaign, like showing a clip on a talk [...]
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• 365 Things I Believe: Someplace Else

  
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  Yogi Berra was born on this day in 1925. 365 Things I Believe is a revisioning of a year long web project. I initially launched the blog 365 Things I Believe because I think there are important things I have to say. There are eternal truths that are non-debatable, although I realize they’re not universally … ...
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• Movie Review — The Great Gatsby (2013)

  
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  With the opening of Baz Luhrmann’s version of  The Great Gatsby , nearly every high school student in the nation has an opportunity not to read F. Scott Fitzgerald period classic!  At least that’s the buzz at the high school where I teach.  Fitzgerald’s 1925 work more or less describes the pitfalls of ...
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• Richard Branson serves as AirAsia stewardess after losing bet

  
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  His star turn on the flight from Australia’s Perth to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur came after he lost a Grand Prix bet with the Malaysian budget carrier’s founder. Read the original here: Richard Branson serves as AirAsia stewardess after losing bet
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• Venus in Tahiti: 8 October – 28 October 1915

  
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• Spider Rock

  
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  Spider Rock Spider Rock stands with awesome dignity and beauty over 800 feet high in Arizona’s colorful Canyon de Chelly National Park (pronounced da Shay). Geologists of the National Park Service say that “the formation began 230 million years ago. Windblown sand swirled and compressed with time created the ...
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• Historical Horology: Happy Mother’s Day!

  
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    Yes, here in the US, today is known as Mother’s Day.  I for one will be spending time with my wife and children, but I did manage to find some articles that focused on how women have impacted the watch industry. First off, did you know that just a short 100 years ago, wristwatches were looked down ...
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• This Day in Labor History: May 12, 1902

  
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  On May 12, 1902, coal miners in Pennsylvania’s anthracite fields went on strike. There were many strikes in the coal fields during the Gilded Age, but this one has special significance because the refusal of the industry to negotiate pushed the strike into the fall and placed urban Americans’ heating supplies in ...
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• The IRS Inquisition

  
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• Positive Social Support at Work May Help Prevent Diabetes

  
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  Work conditions, including low levels of social support and high levels of stress, can accurately predict the development of diabetes over the long term — even in employees who appear to be healthy otherwise, according to new research. The study, led by Sharon Toker, Ph.D., of Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of ...
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