Stranger Things Have Happened

A history blog, focusing primarily on the author's research and reading in American (particularly colonial, Revolutionary, and Native American) history.

Saturday, May 17, 2025

And When There Was No Crawdad to Be Found

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The annals of the poor may be short and simple, but they need not remain so. The methodologies of social history, pioneered by the French An...

Saturday, December 21, 2024

One or Two Bright Spots

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Some good news, courtesy of Fix the News (formerly Futurecrunch). Heaven knows we could all use some: Researchers discovered that the drug ...

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Your Trash, Our Treasure: The Salzburg Refugees

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The princely state of Salzburg, in present-day Austria, had in the early-modern era a Catholic majority and a small but visible Protestant...

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Another Candle

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Some years ago I began a series of posts on charitable organizations I supported and whose signal I wanted to boost. I suppose I preferred ...

Monday, September 30, 2024

In Brief: The Prettier Learning

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Kalipedia, he prophesied, would soon be generally adopted and all the graces of life, genuinely good music, agreeable literature, light phil...

Saturday, August 31, 2024

Colder Connections

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As he plied his loathsome trade in the summer of 1751, the slave-ship captain Henry Ellis paused to engage in a little scientific explorat...

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