A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Wednesday, January 23, 2013 – Munich One must know Munich if one would know Germany… That certainly is true of the post-1918 era of … More “The Capital of the Movement”
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Tuesday, January 22, 2013 – Munich I’m less certain of this course’s ending than of its beginning or middle. Where does our journey finish? … More Now Where?
I’m very reluctant to comment on last Friday’s tragic events in Norway. (1) The story is still evolving. (2) I’m not an expert on Norway, or on right-wing extremism in Europe. And (3) as a historian, I’d always prefer to analyze events from a temporal distance. But… I do teach modern European history regularly, and … More Norway: “A Very Old War”
My friend Jim Hawkinson passed away two months ago today. In that time, he’s been honored by two memorial services (the one at our church, where he served as visitation pastor, drew something like 700 people) and several excellent essays. And while I promised my own appreciation a few weeks ago, I wasn’t sure that … More J. Hawk
Whenever I felt like I was getting overly excited about new media, I could always say, “At least I’m not blogging.” That crumbled a month ago, but after ignoring my family for an hour to work on some post about Caravaggio or English music halls, I could always plead, “At least I’m not on Twitter.” … More That Was the Week That Was
7/22/11 – Coming up next week on The Pietist Schoolman… German Expressionist art, the rise of Nazism, Christianity and the Holocaust, and the end of our virtual WWI course, plus a tribute to my denomination’s great communicator, an Anabaptist-Pietist dialectic, and perhaps the start of a new series or two.
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Monday, January 21, 2013 – to Munich In a mere six hours, a TGV high-speed train traveling upwards of 200 miles per hour will … More A War of Words
I never would have guessed that posting something on my two favorite historical novelists would have generated the kind of response that it did, but let me push my luck by adding representatives of a different kind of historical fiction to my summer reading list. Still jazzed about Tuesday morning’s discussion of World War I … More More Beach Reads
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Sunday, January 20, 2013 – Paris Today in real time happens to be my wedding anniversary; “today” in the course is scheduled as a … More A Day of Rest
Well, we’re a month into this experiment in blogging, and I appreciate all the views, comments, and e-mails! Here are the ten most popular posts from the first thirty days of The Pietist Schoolman: What the World Needs Now… The Anabaptist Vision Nevinson’s War Over There Pledging Allegiance Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War … More One Month Down…
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