Substacks recommended by George Dillard | Looking Through the Past

Recommended by George Dillard

Team Trash: Where People and Wildlife Meet

By Bethany Brookshire

This is a newsletter about animals, people, and trash. Because if there's one thing we can all agree on, it's trash.

Great little explorations of the interface between people and nature

- George Dillard

Res Obscura

By Benjamin Breen

Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire from UC Santa Cruz history professor Benjamin Breen. Also: using AI in research and teaching.

Fascinating reflections on reading and teaching history. You'll love it!

- George Dillard

Footnotes and Tangents

By Simon Haisell

A community for curious and creative readers. Slow book groups reading Leo Tolstoy and Hilary Mantel. Fiction by Simon Haisell.

Come and read War & Peace with us!

- George Dillard

Pasts Imperfect

By Sarah E. Bond

Supporting writers, editors, and creators of a global antiquity.

An excellent roundup of "news" from the ancient world -- new scholarship, interesting objects, and the like. It's great!

- George Dillard

Everything Is Amazing

By Mike Sowden

A newsletter about seeing more, feeling more, and asking better questions. Curiosity makes everything better - but can it be *learned*? Let's find out.

A great example of letting curiosity lead the way!

- George Dillard