Blogs tagged "history"

A study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has just revealed the secrets of a war episode that remained h...

The Donghulin site, on the northern China plain, is one of the few places that documents the transition from hunter-g...

The municipality of Bacoli, located about twenty kilometers from the center of Naples, has restored to public visibil...

So we have Henry II of Champagne, elevated to the position of King of Jerusalem even if he doesn't use the title, and...

Aimery (born c.1153) was one of the sons of the Lord of Poitou, Hugh VIII of Lusignan, and Burgundia of Rancon. His b...

While Henry II of Champagne was functioning as King of Jerusalem (even if he did not use the title itself, preferring...

We welcome Easter with the remarkable news that U.S. Special Operations forces successfully extracted the second airm...

We are just about one hour away (EST) from Easter Sunday (as I write this). For a pre-Easter article, I shared a phot...

I am a fan of the platypus. But I have never seen a platypus in person, for I live in New York City and not Australia...

As populations flocked to city centres in the 19th century, church cemeteries began to overflow with the dead. Roger ...

Marvels, wonders, and monstrosities: something between a medieval bestiary and a scientific treatise on birth defects.

One of the most elaborate works of literary insult ever written.

Leonardo of Pisa (c1170-1241+), better known as Fibonacci, wrote Liber Abaci to introduce and advocate the adoption o...

George Boole (1815-1864) was a mathematician best known as the progenitor of the Boolean algebra, the system of logic...

In 1971, three college roommates developed an educational computer game. Titled OREGON, it was a simulation of westwa...

Think tanks and nonprofit advocacy have replaced citizen-driven political parties. Voters have lost their voice as a ...

Kurdish plans to enter the war remain in limbo as Washington equivocates on support while Tehran seizes the initiativ...

As politics weakens and private power grows, building a great future will depend on permanent games that convert priv...

THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here i...

THUS WE BOMB Iran. The administration does not give consistent reasons for the attack on Iran: some say we war to cha...

LAST MONTH American Affairs published my review of Alexander Karp’s The Technological Republic. While I had plenty cr...

This week we’re going to look a specific piece of early Roman military equipment, the humble bronze pectoral, which i...

Hey folks! Another gap week because, as mentioned last week, I am at the annual meeting for the Society for Military ...

This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implication...