Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
This Is The City
How dead is this blog? Not entirely!
Here’s a tour of downtown Rome in 320 A.D.
Archive for Roman history
Monday, August 24th, 2015
Happy Volcano Day!
In memory of the eruption of Vesuvius on April 24, 79 A.D., and in celebration of the first day of classes here at BGSU for Fall Semester, here’s this.
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Hey, Kids! Let’s talk about BLOOD LIBEL!
Blood libel has been in the news lately because of its unfortunate use by St. Sarah Palin, apostle to the Mama Grizzlies. The unexpected benefit from this has been an outburst of history in news outlets that don’t normally contemplate the existence of anything more ancient than Lady Gaga’s meat dress. One really interesting story was this one at Salon.com. My only complaint about it, and others, is that is doesn’t go far back enough. The blood libel predates the Middle Ages–predates Christianity, in fact.
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