Sitemap - 2024 - Looking Through the Past

Projecting Ourselves Onto the Past

A Newer Seward?

War, Bureaucracy, and Divine Commerce

Echoes of Rage

Liar's Archaeology

The Myth of Bananaland

Does This Taste Poisoned to You?

Horns of Plenty

Where Is Ancient Babylon?

Pistols At Dawn

A Narrow Gate

Ballots, Brawls, and Bribes: Election Day in Early America

A Multiplicity of George Washingtons

An Excellent Means of Electioneering

The World Travels of a Blood-Soaked Mother Goddess

An Ocean of Pain and Death

The First Anti-War Art

A Stalinist Childhood

Barnum's Animals

Can Lost Rivers Be Found Again?

Celebrating Empire, or Marketing It?

The Life and Times of the Empress Dowager

It Came From the Deep

How to Seem to Cut One's Nose Half Off

Migrant Mothers

It's in the Cards

July, 1914

The Most American Animal

The Grand Tour and the Beginnings of Modern Tourism

Splish, Splash, Scrape, and Steam

The Jail Goes by the Name of Dejima

Mostly Incorruptible

The Best of Herbs

Why Are Eagles a Symbol of So Many Countries?

Life in the Trenches

Patently Ridiculous

To Cut and Hack My Days

Nobody Asked the Horses, Part 2

Nobody Asked the Horses

The Garden of Our Dreams

Plumage and Plunder

San Francisco, 1906

The Terror, Beauty, and Community of Eclipses

Who Were the "Barbarians?"

Isthmus Be the Place

To Resist a Fall: the Strange History of the Parachute

The Fighter Still Remains

Shocking, Just Shocking

Paris, 1889

WWII Propaganda: From Tempting Vixens to Adorable Bears

An Ancient Crossroads of Culture

Fancy Hats for Fancy People

Will the Real Nero Please Stand Up?

Terror on Two Wheels

Tell Me the Future