From the Archives: Was Prof. Bhaer a ’48-er?

Today’s blog post just blew up in my face.  It happens.  Instead of scrambling to put something together, or simply not posting, I decided to run an updated version of a post from 2015 that relates to some of the issues I was thinking about.  There will be new stuff next week,I promise.  And an…

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Weird History

Let me make it clear from the beginning that Desert Oracle is very different from the books I generally share with you here on the Margins. It is not a work of narrative history, but history is woven throughout it. Weird history, true, but history nonetheless. Desert Oracle is the outgrowth of a more-or-less quarterly…

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Looking Forward to Another Year of History Nerdery*

It has become a tradition here on the Margins that I share the historical topics that I expect to read/write/think about over the coming year in my first blog post of the year. It’s a useful habit as far as I’m concerned; you can think of it as the coming attractions before the year’s feature…

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