Posts tagged "history"

Feb 21, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Ancient Mediterranean Mercenaries!

This week we’re going to take a look at mercenaries in the ancient Mediterranean world! This was one of the runners-up in the latest ACOUP Senate poll, coming out of quite a few requests to discuss...

Feb 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)

Unruly steeds from King Mu’s mythology, cavorting across a silk scroll.

Feb 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)

A bestselling 18th-century cookbook, containing the first recipe for curry in English.

Feb 14, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest

This week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to off a basic 101-level survey of the strategic theory behind efforts, in a sense, directed...

Feb 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)

A wondrous illuminated manuscript, which gathers and illustrates the marvels of the world and beyond.

Feb 06, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, February 6, 2026 (On Ancient Migrations)

Hey folks, Fireside this week! I have ended up a bit behind in my work and as always it is the blog that much suffer first. In this case, we have in two weeks twice managed to have snow which only ...

Feb 04, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

Observations of “snow flowers” made by microscope in Edo-era Japan.

Feb 04, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

Taking dictation, revising manuscripts, typing copies, literary amanuenses often labour for little compensation and even less recognition. Christine Jacobson explores the neglected efforts of women...

Feb 03, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)

A forgotten bridge between Spiritualism and UFO encounters.

Jan 31, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: The Late Bronze Age Collapse, A Very Brief Introduction

This week, by order of the ACOUP Senate, we’re talking about the Late Bronze Age Collapse (commonly abbreviated ‘LBAC’), the shocking collapse of the Late Bronze Age state system across the Eastern...

Jan 27, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)

A WWII propaganda film narrated as an "auto"-biography

Jan 23, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, January 23, 2025 (On the Cowardice of the Statue PfPs)

Hey folks, Fireside this week! Hopefully everyone enjoyed our series on the running debate over hoplites! As a social media note, I am going to attempt to start setting up a presence on Threads (wi...

Jan 23, 2026 from Palladium

Pardon Underwrites a Year of Palladium

Sustaining ambitious governance journalism and sponsoring PALLADIUM 20: Noblesse Oblige and beyond. The post Pardon Underwrites a Year of Palladium appeared first on Palladium.

Jan 23, 2026 from Palladium

The Triumph of German Industrial Modernism

An alliance of German artists and industrialists forged the visual order of contemporary life, from skyscrapers to smartphones. New challenges demand a new elite to rebuild the cultural machinery o...

Jan 21, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch

Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these d...

Jan 21, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)

Etchings of birds in a somewhat theatrical style.

Jan 20, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)

Slides from twenty years of lecturing about the workings of the universe and the fate of the soul.

Jan 17, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites?

This is, at long last, the last part of our four-part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, Intermission, IVa). last time we looked at the social status of hoplites and the implications that had for the polit...

Jan 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

The memoirs of an aristocratic man revolutionised into an anarchist communist.

Jan 12, 2026 from The Scholar's Stage

35 Theses on the WASPs

LAST MONTH American Affairs published my review of Alexander Karp’s The Technological Republic. While I had plenty critical to say about Karp’s book, the meat of my essay was a historical survey of...