Popular Culture
If you can’t go to Waterloo….
Let Waterloo come to you. You may have heard–June 18th is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Hundreds of thousands of history buffs, nerds, geeks and buggs* will gather in Belgium to watch 5000 enthusiasts and 300 bewildered horses reenact the battle. My guess is that plenty of them are already there,…
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History on Display–From Senegal to Seeger: Stories of the American Banjo
Recently My Own True Love and I had the chance to see Michael Miles’ most recent one-man musical documentary, From Senegal to Seeger: Stories of the American Banjo. It was a last-minute addition to a long-planned small-scale road trip. It turned out to be one of the highlights. We both love the banjo. We’d seen…
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Fatherland
If you dismiss history told in comic book graphic form* as the non-fiction equivalent of Classic Comics, you’re missing out. At its best, graphic non-fiction uses visual elements to tell stories in new and powerful ways.** In her graphic memoir, Fatherland: A Family History, Serbian-Canadian artist Nina Bunjevac tells the blood-soaked history of the former…
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