I’m under the weather, so check this out

I’m discovering that when you have bronchitis you spend half your time coughing and the other half in a state of medication-induced unconsciousness.  That doesn’t leave much time for blogging, so let me direct your attention to an item over at the Army of Tennessee blog.  It deals with the uses of documentary evidence about material [...]

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Hey, speaking of the History Channel

…did anybody watch that documentary on facial castings of historical figures that aired a couple of nights ago?  If you didn’t, it’s running again in early November.
If you didn’t catch it, they took life masks and death masks of notable individuals, scanned them into a computer, and added color and other enhancements to create three-dimensional representations of what these guys actually looked like.  [...]

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The History, Reality Show, UFO, Monster, and Conspiracy Channel

One of the questions people ask me when they find out what sort of thing I do for a living is whether I watch the History Channel.  They’re usually a little surprised when I tell them that I don’t watch it much at all.  Part of it’s due to the fact that I just don’t watch as much [...]

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God, human nature, the meaning of life, and all that stuff

I assume that most of you who make your way here—and I’m flattered that there are more of you than I ever thought there would be when I started doing this—do so because you’re interested in history.  I try to respect that by keeping my posts focused on that topic.  (I should add, though, that I really [...]

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Macaroni a la Monticello

In honor of the excellent Italian cuisine I enjoyed this evening, I humbly direct your attention to this highly unexpected item from the Thomas Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress.
“[P]rovided the flour be of a good quality, & not ground extremely fine, it will always do very well.”—TJ, the Martha Stewart of the eighteenth [...]

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History via txt msg

One of the nifty things about being into history is the fact that people text interesting questions to your cell phone.  For example, on Saturday I got this one out of the blue, from a friend of mine named Amy: “Who was colonel joe cecil?”
I had no idea, but luckily I happened to be on [...]

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A profusion of links

If you’ll kindly direct your attention to the right side of your screen, you’ll notice a profusion of new links where before there was only a blogroll. 
I used to swear to myself that I wouldn’t add any other categories of history-related websites, simply because there are so many fine ones out there.  Lately, however, I’ve decided [...]

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Blogroll present and accounted for

This is just a quick note to address an apparent glitch that happened sometime yesterday.  Some of you may have stopped by yesterday to find the blogroll missing from the front page.  This was not intentional.  I had no idea my blogroll had disappeared until I logged on last night to publish a post I’d been [...]

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Military history blog

I just heard from a fellow named Russ Grimm, an instructor with American Military University who’s got a blog called My Military History.  It’s pretty darn interesting.  I’ve added it to my blogroll, I’ll be reading it frequently, and I recommend it to anyone interested in the history of warfare.  Check it out.

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Threatened places for 2009

Speaking of the Manhattan Project—and because I badly need to restore some gravitas to this blog after that last stunt—check out the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s list of the 11 Most Endangered Places for 2009.  This year’s list includes the Enola Gay hangar at Wendover, Utah. 
A lot of other Manhattan Project sites are in [...]

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