From the Archives: Who Made the Map of the Modern Middle East?

Sometimes life and/or deadlines take over, making it difficult for me to provide new blog posts on a regular schedule.  This is one of those times.  For the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing posts from the archives, an occasional guest post, and maybe a book review or two as I finish some of the exciting…

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Uncle Sam Wants You: The Man Behind the Poster

Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) keeps popping up in places where I don’t expect him. Each time I have to look him up, because I don’t remember who he is. Each time he looks a little more interesting. Most recently I stumbled across him on HathiTrust. I had given into the temptation to search for…

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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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