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, July 07, 2022

More Dairy, Less Empire

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“I will moo harder!” says Comrade Cow. Some time ago on This Here Blog I wrote very favorably about Yegor Gaidar’s 2007 paper “The Soviet...

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Of Calligrams and Force Protection

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The Islamic rule against graven images did not prevent early-modern Muslims from developing capacious traditions of representational art. ...

Monday, May 09, 2022

Diplomacy by Other Means

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Conventional histories of the United States paint a lurid portrait of the republic’s early relationship with the Muslim world, especially ...

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Good Works: Against Malaria

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The name of the Against Malaria Foundation describes a goal rather than a moral position. Few, if any, people are FOR malaria,* a mosquit...

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Tired of Cursing the Darkness

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I'm beginning a series of posts here analogous to my annual "Any Good News?" offerings, a series in which I introduce or des...

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Any Good News in 2021?

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As the days (in the Northern Hemisphere) grow shorter, coronavirus continues to ravage large parts of the world, the United States slouches ...

Friday, October 01, 2021

The Establishment Wears a Red Dress

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To be an independent woman in Georgian England one needed a solid layer of money between oneself and the world. In this regard, Mary Edwar...

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