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• Fall of the Wall

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 20:17 in ddr, world history, unification, german history, east germany, gdr, berlin wall, west germany

  The Berlin Wall by the Brandenburger Tor. Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve probably noticed by now that today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was on this day, November 9th, in 1989 that the Wall wa...

• The First Permanent Photograph

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 01:06 in Photography, world history, first photograph

  Today I was killing time by browsing Wikipedia and ran across a very interesting photograph. It is a photograph taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 and is considered to be the first permanent photograph ever taken. Although difficult to make o...

• The Battle of the Washita

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 17:00 in american history, cheyenne, 19th century, custer, arapaho, battles & wars, kiowa

  Marker at Battle of the WashitaLast Friday I gave a talk about the Battle of the Washita to a group of undergraduate students and because of that I thought I would create a post here about this particularly interesting battle. The Battle of the Washi...

• History Translations

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 14:43 in diary, Germany, General, journal, wwi, world history, translations, german history

  German WWI soldier, Dieter Finzen I’ve been contacted by the person running the online journal of Dieter Finzen and asked if I would be willing to do translations for the site. The idea behind the site is to post journal entries made by the Ger...

• Article by General Sherman on his ‘Grand Strategy’ of the Civil War

  Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 14:23 in american history, 19th century, the civil war, william t. sherman

  Another blog I regularly follow pointed me in the direction of a very interesting article written by General William T. Sherman about his ‘Grand Strategy’ of the Civil War. It’s interesting to read Sherman’s take on it about t...

• Free Civil War and Reconstruction Lectures from Yale

  Posted on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 01:54 in videos, lectures, american history, reconstruction, 19th century, the civil war

  The other day I stumbled upon a website called Academic Earth. The purpose of the website is to provide free lectures on various subjects from the leading universities in the US. I very eagerly browsed through their history section and ran across a s...

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