Cross-cultural “Stuff”
Holiday Rerun: The Other First Thanksgiving
Unless you live in the American Southwest, the grade school version of American history* typically leaps from Columbus and 1492 straight to 1620, when the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts. There is a vague awareness that the Spanish and the French were “out there” doing something, but the story focuses on the development of the thirteen…
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On Paper
Self-confessed bibliophiliac Nicholas Basbanes is the author of several volumes on book collecting and book mania. In On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand Year History, he moves beyond the world of books to consider the material from which they are made. On Paper is not another history of the discovery and spread of the…
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On The Trail of Genghis Khan
I’ve admitted before that I have a soft spot in my heart for Genghis Khan. My Own True Love and I dearly love a road trip, especially if it includes a historical site or three. How could I resist On The Trail of Genghis Khan–the story of a Road Trip Through History on the grand…
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