Readers of edwired will know that for several years I’ve been pursuing the identities and history of eight guys from Trenton, NJ who happen to live on my office all in a photograph I procured from a junk shop almost three decades ago. Of late I’ve been zeroing in on them just a bit more…
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You Were Warned
Back at the beginning of the semester I warned readers of this blog that I was teaching a course called Lying About the Past in which the students would — after studying historical hoaxes for half a semester — create a historical hoax and turn it loose on the Internet. They did just that and…
Imperial Legacies in the Present
The excellent blog Strange Maps has just offered up a very interesting example of the last legacies of the recent past — meaning the past hundred years or so. This map, which superimposes the borders of Imperial Germany and Russia on a map of electoral data from the 2007 parliamentary elections in Poland. Even a…
Stretching the Physical Boundaries of the Humanities
[Originally posted at hist.net] Regular readers of this blog know that I consider Bill Turkel to be one of the most innovative historians to be found anywhere in the world. What follows is a post I wrote about his Lab for Humanistic Fabrication for the blog hist.net… It’s not very often that someone finds an…