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Naomi Oreskes: The lecture Lord Monckton slept through, which he hopes you will not see
Here’s another example of where historians show their value in science debates. Naomi Oreskes delivered this lecture a few years ago on denialism in climate science. Among other targets of her … more →
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Naomi Oreskes: The lecture Lord Monckton slept through, which he hopes you will not see
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 month ago: Here’s another example of where historians show their value in science debates. Naomi Oreskes … more →
We become the ephemera of history: 'Only the privileged few of us get to be fossils'
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 month ago: From “Whose father was he?” a four-part essay on tracking down the story of three childr … more →
Economics: Tracking layoffs
Ed Darrell wrote 10 months ago: Economics students doing reports or projects on employment or unemployment rates? Need something dep … more →
"I swear (or affirm)": Ready for the inauguration?
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Ed Darrell wrote 10 months ago: Here’s a map that should be more viewed in America, but a map which has been much overlooked i … more →
"Maybe the best reason yet for being happy that Obama was elected"
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Ed Darrell wrote 10 months ago: Go look at Barry Weber’s post at First Morning. Spend at least a full minute looking at that p … more →
History for fun, not profit (other than a little drink)
Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Caption from the New York Times: E Clampus Vitus has tens of thousands of members across seven Weste … more →
Private, personal historian?
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a career you don’t often see touted at high school career days: Professional per … more →
Oops! Gustav hammered Baton Rouge, no one noticed
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: While everyone is patting themselves on the back for getting people out of New Orleans in fine fashi … more →
Iowa Scout tragedy - a message from the Chief Scout Executive
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Chief Scout Executive Robert J. Mazzuca issued this message yesterday, regarding the tornado strike … more →
Query to historians: Material on German-American Internment in WWII?
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Historians, help me out: What do you know about the internment of German Americans and Italian Ameri … more →
Phoenix has landed
Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Phoenix landed on Mars today at 4:38 p.m. Pacific Time. Confirmation of the landing took 15 minutes … more →
Rewrite the government and civics texts
Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Government teachers, can you find this in the textbooks you use in your classes? Nat Hentoff reports … more →
Hydrogen power: Still a gas after all these years
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: There must have been news conferences, press releases and lengthy stories, but I missed them. It ca … more →
Dick Hussein Cheney. John Hussein McCain.
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: The Dallas Morning News bloggers reported from the Senate District 16 Democratic Convention (held ye … more →
Icebergs in Florida: History anecdotes, or data?
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: “Bergs and British Climate: That Old Yarn of the Effect of Greenland’s Floating Mountain … more →
Capturing history: Jim Brown at IUPUI and the Delaware Tribes
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: While you’re over looking at IUPUI and wondering whether you’ve ever heard of the campus … more →
Tagged by Myers to do history! Meet James Madison
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: One of those memes. I’ve got a couple of them hanging fire still, I really do badly at this st … more →
Missed Obama
Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Barack Obama came to Duncanville today. Bill Clinton was two miles away, at Mountain View Community … more →
Kosovo: Running it up the flagpole
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Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Living through history: Independence for Kosovo looks more likely; residents work to pick a flag for … more →
