Here… • “Happy Reformation Day!” definitely is the wrong wish for anyone, but hopefully watching a music video of me singing about the life of Martin Luther made someone, somewhere giggle just a bit. • Two more videos to watch, only one of which featured me: the first two talks in our series previewing Whole … More That Was The Week That Was
Over the weekend the always-interesting blog Disunion (hosted by the New York Times website) posted “The Name of War,” in which Georgetown University history professors Chandra Manning and Andrew Rothman tracked the evolving answer to a seemingly obvious question: What did Americans call the war fought between the Confederacy and Union from 1861 to 1865? … More When Did the Events of 1861-1865 Become “The Civil War”?
Here… • July 1 is a big day for commemorating momentous battles: the Somme turned 97, and Gettysburg turned 150. • “Liberal arts” ≠ “the humanities” (at least, not them alone). • And in what’s already become a Pietist Schoolman tradition: a Bah, Humbug! kind of post for the 4th of July. …There and Everywhere … More That Was The Week That Was
7/1/13 – In this morning’s post I focused on a famous European battle that started on July 1st, but of course, today also marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the central battle of the U.S. Civil War: Gettysburg. I posted some links on that battle and its commemoration over at our department blog.
Here… • I enjoyed learning more about one Baptist hero (Will D. Campbell) from one of my Baptist heroes (G.W. Carlson). • Are the humanities actually in crisis? Some historical perspective on how many students major in history, philosophy, literature, and languages — and how many students take basic courses in those fields. • Just … More That Was The Week That Was
Here… • The most popular posts in the second year of The Pietist Schoolman more about the Olympics than you’d expect from a blog on Pietism, higher education, and other non-Olympian topics. • Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a Christ-type with his own Hollywood marketing campaign!! • Last … More That Was The Week That Was
Today’s semi-rerun takes me back pretty far in the life of this blog, to December 2011. But then, the debate goes back to the eve of the Civil War… Original Post: “This Day in History: John Brown’s Body” Follow Up: “An Exchange on John Brown” (New York Review of Books, May 9, 2013) “I tend … More Following Up: Debating John Brown
So, Brad Paisley’s new album includes a duet with LL Cool J entitled “Accidental Racist.” Perhaps you hadn’t heard… For (to paraphrase Sideshow Cecil) you spent yesterday on Mars, in a cave, with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears. (And your iPhone off, to update a 16-year old pop culture reference a … More “Accidental Racist” and the Uses of History
Here… • Games like the one my Minnesota Twins played yesterday are the reason that I might need to rely on the Amish to help me feel good about the national pastime this season. • A day-late celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., dead forty-five years as of this past Thursday. • Dabbling in the … More That Was The Week That Was
In my two-part series asking which wars had inspired the best movies, I noted that the views of the fans who register their opinions with the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) sometimes diverge significantly from those of the film critics whose reviews are aggregated by Rotten Tomatoes (RT). The example I gave in Monday’s analysis of … More The Most Over- and Underrated War Movies
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