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Who decides who’s Racist?

August 20, 2019 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

When I was in High School I read a book called Only Begotten Daughter, a work of speculative fiction published…

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Posted in: 20th Century, 21st Century, Cultural History, Identity, Michael's Blog, Modernity, Nationalism, Rant, Theory, Writing
Wikipedia as primary source

Wikipedia & History Teaching

June 27, 2017 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

(By Michael) Introduction I want to talk about teaching history using Wikipedia, but not in the way I believe the…

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Posted in: Comparative History, Historiography, History, Identity, Michael's Blog, Popular History, Rant, Theory
Amphitheater in Ephesus (Efes), Turkey

Genetics & Identity: My concerns

January 17, 2017 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

By Michael Following an introduction to the idea that we actually have no genetic relationship with many of our direct…

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Posted in: History, Identity, Michael's Blog, Rant

The Problem with Memes

November 15, 2016 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

Sharing political memes is not mentally hygienic

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Posted in: Michael's Blog, Rant

Stickers & Shoves

November 8, 2015 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

By Michael Hypocrisy today is considered by most to be a serious sin, “the sin of pretending to virtue or…

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Posted in: Michael's Blog, Rant Filed under: altruism, humanities, religion, science

Traditions and Antiquity

April 18, 2015 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

Traditions, in my experience, are crafted. Which is to say that they do not arise spontaneously out of the thin…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Cultural History, Historiography, History, Identity, Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog, Rant Filed under: family, family traditions, participation

Archery and Firearms

September 13, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

This post is perhaps more rambling than some… I have several areas where my hobbies and my academic interests intersect.…

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Posted in: 18th Century, Comparative History, Kazakh, Michael's Blog, Military History, Nomadism, Rant

After the fact

August 4, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

First, a digression: several centuries ago, the English language was quite a different beast. I love to look through the…

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Posted in: Cultural History, Historiography, History, Islamic History, Michael's Blog, Oral History, Rant, Theory Filed under: etymology, history, theory
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