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Randall Stephens Jean de Venette (ca. 1308-ca. 1369), a Carmelite friar in Paris, wrote about the horrifying devastation brought on by the ...
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. Historic Maps and Digital Mapping Roundup "Was your street bombed during the Blitz?" Telegraph , December 6, 2012 The year-long... -
Eric B. Schultz Alan Lomax (left) with Richard Queen of Soco Junior Square Dance Team at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carol... -
Philip White November 30 was Winston Churchill’s birthday. 138 years after his birth, historians, politicians and the public are still as fa... -
History blogging is delicate proposition. I typically look for a topic which is sufficient to fill 3-5 paragraphs with perhaps that many lin... -
There is nothing I like better than finding a new archive of local history--particularly when it isn't local. Last week I tweeted a ques... -
Jensen-Byrd building by Flickr user Terry Bain . (Thank you Terry for choosing Creative Commons licensing.) This morning we have some good n... -
The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture is throwing a big shindig on Saturday, September 22nd. The Fall Harvest Festival features a vari... -
. Steve Marinucci, "Beatles' Apple has nothing to fear from 'Strange Fruit' film," Examiner , April 21, 2012 It fina... -
[Update 12/10/12: I added a few lines beneath some of the photos to answer a few questions .] Friday was a good day, I got to watch one of m...
