Enjoy some of my favorite Pompeii Links!!
Apolline Project --- http://www.apollineproject.org/
Herculaneum Conservation Project --- http://www.herculaneum.org/
Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia --- http://classics.uc.edu/pompeii/
Sarno-Becken Project --- http://www.salve-research.org/
Vesuviana Project --- http://www.pompeiisites.org/
Via dell'Abbondanza Project --- http://www.pompeiiperspectives.org/
Here is an entertaining and informative video on Pompeii [the Butler from Downton Abbey is one of the actors!]
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This week's BBC Podcast: Jerry Brotton introduces the father of geography, while David Musgrove investigates some historical recipe books.
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What is the American Historical Association reading this week?
New Interactive Tool Helps Explain the Global Spread of Capitalism: A visualization of the global publishing history of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations from 1776 to 2001, as featured recently on Edudemic.
What "counts" as a public history dissertation? In a thoughtful piece, Richard Anderson (a doctoral student at Princeton University) argues that "Public history needs rigorous scholarship, and academic history needs faculty willing and able to engage communities and problems beyond the campus." It poses a difficult challenge for PhD programs considering alternative career options for their doctoral students.
History and Theory: The first virtual issue of History and Theory is now available for readers interested in such weighty issues as periodization, multiple temporalities, and the metaphysics of time.
In Convention Speeches, History is Made: As we approach the Republican and Democratic political conventions, Julian Zelizer offers a look back at the different types of convention speeches, each with different purposes and receptions.
And so much more!
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Archaeology TV has several clips from a dig in Crete:
Here is clip one! The rest can be found through the youtube channel
