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, 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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