In the past few months I have been terrible at blogging regularly. I really must change that..
This week's BBC podcast:
Richard Carwardine explores religion in the USA and David Lees considers Vichy France's role in the Holocaust.
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What is the American Historical Association reading this week?
This week’s roundup of interesting articles and links from around the web includes the marking the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with a new portal, important news related to higher education funding, a fun featurette on archive exploration, the visual history of typewriters, and much more
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Google Maps is adding many new sites (Pre-Hispanic) to it's street views feature.
The sites already online include Chichen Itza, Teotihuacan and Monte Alban.
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History Today posted an interesting article entitled, "Witchcraft in Tudor Times" which looks at some surprising tolerance not often found for "witches".
Witches by Hans Baldung Grien (Woodcut, 1508)http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/08/witchcraft-tudor-times |
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