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.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

What I Saw of the ASE Conference, 2013 Edition

›

When not eating seafood, drinking too little booze, and dodging the occasional downpour, your humble narrator spent most of the 2013 meetin...

Friday, November 15, 2013

Denmark is Letting Down the Side

›

Among the more surprising social developments of the early twenty-first century is the advance of Scandinavia, of all places, into ...

2 comments:

Friday, November 08, 2013

Twitter and NaNoWriMo

›

A little over a decade ago a group of Bay-area writers instituted National Novel Writers' Month (NaNoWriMo), an informal Web-based eve...

Monday, October 21, 2013

Our Man in Genoa

›

Like most American historians, I know little of the city of Genoa save that it was the birthplace of Christopher Columbus and that it i...

1 comment:

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Niall Ferguson is still spinning the dross of his rage and vanity into a bigger pile of dross

›

Fans of Niall "Saucypants" Ferguson will take pleasure in learning that after a fairly quiet summer, the Sexiest Scotsman has...

1 comment:

Friday, September 20, 2013

Containing College Costs (Continued)

›

( Continued from September 17th ): Students: There are constant complaints that college is horrendously expensive, and yet many o...

‹

›

Home

View web version

About Me

Dave Nichols

View my complete profile