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.

Monday, January 26, 2015

The Professorial Coup

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If yesterday’s election in Greece has not left me enthused*, it has certainly intrigued me. While the Anglo-American press has chara...

Thursday, January 08, 2015

The Battle for New Orleans: Making Louisiana Safe for Slavery

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As longtime fans of The Simpsons know, the Battle of New Orleans, whose bicentennial we celebrate today, occurred two weeks after the War...

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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

The Big One, Plus One Hundred

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Your humble narrator has not devoted much attention to this year's big centennial, the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World W...

Monday, November 24, 2014

The 2014 Midterms: Everybody Knows

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Since miscalculating the likely outcome of the 2006 midterm elections I have avoided discussing American electoral politics on this blo...

Friday, November 14, 2014

Campaign 1776: Hallowing the Small and the Great

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I am of two minds regarding the recent launch, by the Civil War Preservation Trust, of Campaign 1776 , the Trust's effort to preser...

Monday, October 13, 2014

1592 and All That

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By 1592, a century after Columbus’s first voyage and nine decades after his death, Spain had created an empire as vast and ruthless as ...

Friday, October 03, 2014

Giving Currency to Native American Women

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Indian Country Today has proposed removing Andrew Jackson from the 20-dollar bill, on the grounds that Americans should not so honor a...

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