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. Thursday, January 17, 2013 – Versailles HOLLYWOOD FOR $1200: Which American president was the subject of the 1944 film, nominated for ten Oscars, that … More “The Right Kind of Peace”
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 16, 2013 – Paris You wouldn’t think that the seemingly random combination of these four words could yield 2.1 million hits on … More “Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys”
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 15, 2013 – to Paris Between 1840 and 1914, as many as one million Swedes crossed the Atlantic Ocean to seek economic … More Bennie and Mabel
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 14, 2013 – The Somme Back on the bus for a brief ride across the Belgium-France border, then we’ll tour sites from … More The War Elsewhere
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 13, 2013 – Ieper No, not the last post in the series. (We’re not quite halfway through.) “Last Post” is a small … More “Last Post”
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. Saturday, January 12, 2013 – from London to Ieper After a week in London, it’s high time we actually saw some of the battlefields … More “What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?”
Kind of a slow blogging week, what with the long weekend and a heat-induced torpor slowing down us hard-summering intellectuals. But here’s what you might have missed at The Pietist Schoolman and elsewhere. Here I revealed the Baroque painting that lends a sliver of visual flair to the top of this otherwise text-heavy blog—along the … 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. Friday, January 11, 2013 – London For our last day in London, students will be given semi-free rein and set loose to work on … More The Challenge of Commemoration
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. Thursday, January 10, 2013 – Oxford Already in this series, I’ve singled out several excellent movies that meditate on the First World War. Another … More Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War
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 9, 2013 – London …God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work … More Sing! Sing! Sing!
The Pietist Schoolman 