History Carnival 165
Welcome to the 165th instalment of the History Carnival, a monthly showcase of some of the best recent blogging on historical topics. The Past in …
Welcome to the 165th instalment of the History Carnival, a monthly showcase of some of the best recent blogging on historical topics. The Past in …
This semester, my students have learned the narrow streets of the Marais, traced the path once taken by Paris’s city walls, and considered how the …
The HBO miniseries The Young Pope is a dreamy and often surreal look at the papacy of the fictional Pius XIII: previously Lenny Belardo, the …
One of the anecdotes that tends to stick with students in my survey courses, to the end of the semester and beyond, is that trousers …
Sara Damiano’s post yesterday over at The Junto on assigning and using more primary sources by and about women in US History survey courses was …
Header image: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53084786q As an ambitious young man, Stanislas Prioux did something quite common for ambitious young men in mid-nineteenth century France. He left behind …
A wall cast a long shadow across the recent U.S. presidential election: the 1,954 mile-long wall which Donald Trump has promised will soon stretch the …
Reading the work of mystics or theologians gives us insight into what medieval Christians thought about their faith; walking through the ruins of a monastery …
If you use Zotero as a citation manager, there’s a relatively quick way to embed your Zotero library (or a sub-section of it) on your …
The recent decision by several communities in France to ban the burkini has received a lot of attention around the world—and rightly so. It is …