Cross-cultural “Stuff”
From the Archives: Log Cabins, Two Ways
Another post from the History in the Margins archives: this one from 2012. ✢ ✢✢ I always learn something new when My Own True Love and I head out on a Road Trip Through History. Our recent expedition to Colonial Michilimacinac was no exception. I learned that eighteenth century cooks dried pumpkins as well as…
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From the Archives: Asia’s Inland Trade, or How the Spice Trade Worked
While writing my most recent newsletter(opens in new tab), I had reason to spend some time thinking about my historical roots, and looking for an old blog post about the organization of the Dutch and British East India Companies. I evidently never wrote that post, but I found a couple of related posts from 2016…
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From the Archives: Walking Hallowed Ground
Recently My Own True Love and I were at dinner with friends and the conversation turned to the Gallipoli campaign in World War I . [1] The next day he requested that I run this post again. It originally ran in 2011, when History in the Margins was brand-new. I think it holds up. In…
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