Wednesday, April 26, 2006

A Stereotypical Ukrainian

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In 1945 George Orwell reported that the British Army had recently captured two "German" soldiers whose actual nationality was inde...
Thursday, April 13, 2006

Jefferson and the Beringian Migration

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In commemoration of Thomas Jefferson's 266th birthday, and as a follow-up to my post of March 15th , let me note that the Sage of Montic...
Friday, April 07, 2006

Voyagers to the East, Part V

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For the previous entry in this series, click here . Formal European exploration of North America entered a dormant period in the 1510s, ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Voyagers to the East, Part IV

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For the previous entry in this series, click here . During the first decade of the sixteenth century, European sailors began to explore th...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

The First Surfer Nation

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This week's TIME Magazine has a good cover story on Kennewick Man, the 9,400-year-old skeleton discovered in Washington in the 1990s. Th...
Sunday, March 05, 2006

One Man's Trash

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With the approach of spring, a person's thoughts turn naturally to...Eskimos. Well, perhaps not everyone's, but the Inuit have been...
Sunday, February 26, 2006

Voyagers to the East, Part III

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For the previous entry in this series, click here . Columbus was not the last European to transport Native American slaves to Europe. In ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Voyagers to the East, Part II

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For the previous entry in this series, click here . Hagiographers of Christopher Columbus have avoided drawing attention to the navigator...
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Monday, February 20, 2006

Voyagers to the East: Indians in Europe, Part I

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Last semester my students and I were discussing Alfred Crosby's term "Columbian Exchange," first used in his 1972 book descr...
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Undaunted Puppy Flinging

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2006 concludes a four-year commemoration of the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark's overland journey to the Pacific Ocean. The two explo...

Introduction

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I've been thinking of starting a weblog for two years now, and have finally decided to take the plunge. Since there are several million...
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