It strikes me that, while history tends to peer around the hoopskirts of my posts, I haven’t written anything about online resources that address history head on! So here we go:
Footnote.com is an online archive of digitized historical documents and images that, well… I’ll let them say it:
Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents [...]
Check out the variety of humanities events in Wyoming this week!
Tie Hack Tour, Dubois
Monday, July 27: 7:00 PM
Dubois Museum, 909 W. Ramshorn St., Dubois
Museum Education director leads a driving/hiking tour to tie hack ruins on Union Pass.
Meet at the museum at 7 p.m. and be prepared to carpool.
Summer Film Series: The Good, the Bad, and [...]
Today’s entry comes to us courtesy of Dr. Mary Keller, a historian of religions who teaches for the Religious Studies program at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Keller also writes a weekly column for the Cody Enterprise on the importance of knowing our history as we address contemporary issues. The following is an excerpt from [...]
I found so much marvelous stuff on Russia last week, that it just had to spill over into another post! So, without further ado, here are two photographers who have documented Russia’s past in interesting ways.
Sergey Larenkov intermingles historical photographs of World War II’s Seige of Leningrad with contemporary photographs of the same locations. Bombed-out [...]