Taking a Holiday

For the first time since I started History in the Margins, I’m going to take a planned break from blogging.*  Unless I stumble across something that I feel I absolutely need to tell you RIGHT NOW, I’ll be back on January 3. In the meantime, have a merry/jolly/happy/blessed time as you celebrate the victory of…

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The Swadeshi Movement: The First Step Toward Indian Independence

Beginning in the 1830s, the British East India Company provided Western education to a small number of Indian elites: it was cheaper and more effective than recruiting the entire work force of the empire back home in Britain. In addition to training clerks of all kinds, the East Indian Company created as a by-product what…

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Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas

It will come as no surprise to regular readers of History in the Margins–or anyone who browses my office bookshelves–that I am fascinated by maps.   As I’ve mentioned before, history happens in both time and space.  How can you understand an event/culture/war/empire if you don’t have a feel for its geography? As someone interested in…

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