During my Thanksgiving hiatus I’ll be reprising some older posts: one each from June/July, August, September, and October. The following comes from July 22, near the end of my series taking readers day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. You can see an overview/index of the whole series here. … More Best of The Pietist Schoolman: A War of Words
November 8, 1923 – The Beer Hall Putsch in Munich November 8, 1937 – The “Eternal Jew” exhibition opens (also in Munich) It’s an important week for Nazi-related anniversaries. I’ve blogged earlier about the Putsch (on the 16th anniversary of which — November 8, 1939 — Georg Elser failed in his attempt to assassinate Hitler). … More This Day in History: The Worst of Sinners
Here at The Pietist Schoolman My 100th post: a “This Week in History” segment featuring two devastating fires, Lincoln’s killer’s killer, and the rises and falls of the Dutch and British empires. A two-part post jumping off from the recent discussion of “Dominion theology” and its influence on Republican presidential candidates Michelle Bachmann and Rick … More That Was the Week That Was
The past week found me writing and reading an even more motley crew of posts than usual. Behold: a small but eclectic sampling of the week that was. Here The first installment of what I plan as a recurring Monday feature: a semi-serious look-ahead at “This Week in History.” Embedded will be a recurring sub-feature: … More That Was the Week That Was
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. 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
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