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The study of history is essential to understanding the human experience. By investigating the past, we can learn about the present and prepare for the future. The Roman Empire was one of the most influential empires in world history. It dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for over a thousand years. The Ottoman Empire was another great empire that controlled swathes of territory in the Middle East and North Africa. England has also played a major role in world history, particularly during the two World Wars. These are just some of the examples of how different empires have shaped our world.
GoFundMe Fundraiser for The Family History Guide – The Family History Guide Blog
Bob Ives, Executive Director of The Family History Guide Association, a non-profit charitable organization, is organizing a GoFundMe fundraiser for The Family History Guide. Here is the information about The Family History Guide from the GoFundMe website: "The Family History Guide is a free website that represents a best-in-class learning environment for family history. Its scope is broad, but its focus is narrow enough to help you achieve your goals, step by step. Whether you're brand new to family history or a seasoned researcher—or somewhere in between—The Family History Guide can be your difference maker."...
Breakout Year by KD Casey – Caz's Reading Room
Eitan Rivkin is used to being first. First generation born to Russian immigrant parents, first overall pick in the draft, now the first ballplayer to come out… before his first big contract. It’s lonely being the first, and it’s especially lonely in the inescapable eye of New York sports media. So when he wants to…
Learning about Chrome Flex OS – The Family History Guide Blog
Chrome Flex OS is a lightweight operating system from Google that can give new life to older computers. It's oriented towards streaming and internet browsing, and so it doesn't have a lot of the storage and processing capabilities included with the Windows or Mac OS. However, Chrome Flex OS can be an attractive alternative for users who may not be able or willing to upgrade their Windows platforms, for example. Another interesting use case would be for FamilySearch centers and libraries with older computers, who would rather focus on browsing while skipping Windows upgrades. In...
I’m sharing my review for Death At the School of Translators, A Rebecca DeToledo Medieval Mystery by Esther Knight #bookreview #historicalmystery #histfic #blogtour – MJ Porter
I'm sharing my review for Death At the School of Translators, A Rebecca DeToledo Medieval Mystery by Esther Knight #bookreview #historicalmystery #histfic #blogtour
Fraser Livingston on Joshua Nygren’s *The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920* | Society for US Intellectual History
Multiple historians have traced the causes that led to the mass exodus of America’s farm population since the early 1900s, one of the most substantial demographic shifts in twentieth-century US history. In 1920, farmers represented 30 percent of the US population, but by 2000, that number had dwindled to 2 percent. All the while, the
The blue by Nancy Bilyeau – In Another Era
Geneviève Planché comes from a family of French Huguenots who were forced to flee their homeland and now live in Spitalfields, London. Most of them work as silk weavers, but Geneviève lives there with her grandfather, who is a painter, and she hopes to become an artist herself. However, the artistic world in London is…
Saving A Philadelphia Christmas Tradition — Even In the Summer — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history
Michael Leibrandt explains tell us about how Philadelphia is trying to save a Christmas tradition. The beginning of many great traditions started in Philadelphia — the City’s 1913 grand display outside of Independence Hall – saw a forty-five piece Regimental Ba
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVc: Rent and Extraction – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
This is the third piece of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have ever lived. Last time, we started looking at the subsistence of peasant agriculture by considering the productivity of our…
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