From Ada Palmer’s guest post on John Scalzi’s blog (promoting her new book): more
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> When Duke Cosimo wanted to build his elevated private commuter tunnel, those… more
> […] when we look at history’s major censorious regimes, all of them—I want to… more
> Is progress inevitable? Is it natural? Is it fragile? Is it possible? Is it a… more
> Many in the 18th [century] who thought democracy was absurd rejected it… more
> I vividly remember the first story like that I ever met, it was a James… more
> I want my students to come away from my courses not thinking about historical… more
Black Death, COVID, and why we keep telling the myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and bad Middle Ages
This post is for you if you’ve been wondering whether Black Death =>… more
> [T]he [question] which I am always happiest to get, and which I get… more