1921: A Year in Review (With a brief nod to 1941)

For my last substantive post of 2021, I was torn between looking at 1921 and 1941. I finally decided that 1941 had received lots of attention in Historyland, at least in the United States, thanks to the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Every major media source, and a lot of minor ones,…

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1821: A Year in Review

As far as my mental timeline is concerned, 1821 means the beginning of the Greek War of Independence, which I first became aware of thanks to Lord Byron, the baddest of all the bad boys of Romantic poetry. (This does not make me unique. Byron also introduced many of his European contemporaries to Greek aspirations…

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1920: A Year in Review

If you spent time this year in the places where the history buffs hang out on-line, including this blog, you know that the 19th Amendment of the United States Constitution was ratified on August 18, 1920— “giving” women the right to vote. Over the course of 2020, historians expanded the story to remind us of…

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