I love maps. I love writing about them. I love rescuing them. I love reading about them on the internet. I also teach with them.
the Caribbean in the early 1700s became the Golden Age specifically because those pirates spoke English
…our understanding of New World “tribal society” represents not an age-old practice, but rather the recently produced consequences of massive die-offs
(By Michael) Introduction I want to talk about teaching history using Wikipedia, but not in the way I believe the…
By Michael Following an introduction to the idea that we actually have no genetic relationship with many of our direct…
The following link redirects to my first entry in a new column hosted by the Central Eurasian Studies Society. The…
By Michael Writing is very difficult. Writing will be very difficult. Writing has been very difficult. The English language allows…
Maintaining concentration is a problem on more than one level when writing my dissertation. I cannot know how widely spread…
Johan Gustaf Renat (1682-1744) was an amazing historical figure, a Swedish man with an uncanny skill for survival in strange…
Traditions, in my experience, are crafted. Which is to say that they do not arise spontaneously out of the thin…
