The Darkest Truths
In 2007, Caroline Sturdy Colls—then a 21-year-old University of Birmingham graduate student—made her first visit to the Nazi death camp at Treblinka, Poland. As a prospective forensic-archaeology scho…
Tag: history
Past Imperfect
Let’s start with some old dirt. Who were the first people to arrive in North America more than 12,000 years ago? Did these intrepid explorers originate in Siberia…
Conflict on the Plains
The images in this series represent my interpretation of the struggle of Native Americans throughout the Plains Indian Wars between 1855 and 1890. During this period, the U.S.…
Southern Provisions
Ellen Messer Tufts University Shields, David S. (2015) Southern Provisions. The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Did you ever wonder where Carolina…
Joe Trapido: Epochs and continents: Potlatch, articulation, and violence in the Congo
This post is part of the Modes of Production feature moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling and Joe Trapido. From the sixteenth century onward, European trading networks grew…
Anthropologist in the Cane
A great of Caribbean anthropology, Professor Sidney Mintz has passed away… Last week one of the greats of North American anthropology, Prof Sidney Mintz, passed away. Mintz was…
Anthropologist in the Cane
A great of Caribbean anthropology, Professor Sidney Mintz has passed away… Last week one of the greats of North American anthropology, Prof Sidney Mintz, passed away. Mintz was…
Anthropologist in the Cane
A great of Caribbean anthropology, Professor Sidney Mintz has passed away… Last week one of the greats of North American anthropology, Prof Sidney Mintz, passed away. Mintz was…
Not for Sale: How WWII Artifacts Mobilized Japanese-Americans Online
Banner of JA History Not for Sale Facebook page. On March 5, 2015, Eve M. Kahn’s “Newsworthy Notes” in the Antiques section of the New York Times included…
#Report: Fabulous Facial Hair History
On Saturday 28 November Alun Withey and I hosted Framing the Face: New Perspectives of the History of Facial Hair, a one day conference funded by the University…
The Mongol Invasion of Java in the Desawarnana
The main sources for the Mongol invasion of Java are the Chinese ones, primarily the dynastic history of the Yuan. However, as I noted before, the attempted…
The Mongol Invasion of Java in the Desawarnana
The main sources for the Mongol invasion of Java are the Chinese ones, primarily the dynastic history of the Yuan. However, as I noted before, the attempted…
The Mongol Invasion of Java in the Desawarnana
The main sources for the Mongol invasion of Java are the Chinese ones, primarily the dynastic history of the Yuan. However, as I noted before, the attempted…
Eastern Indonesia in the Desawarnana
The earliest written documentation of several Indonesian islands occurs in canto 14 of the Desawarnana, the East Javanese topogenic poem of 1365. There’s been a lot of…
Eastern Indonesia in the Desawarnana
The earliest written documentation of several Indonesian islands occurs in canto 14 of the Desawarnana, the East Javanese topogenic poem of 1365. There’s been a lot of…
Eastern Indonesia in the Desawarnana
The earliest written documentation of several Indonesian islands occurs in canto 14 of the Desawarnana, the East Javanese topogenic poem of 1365. There's been a lot of…
An Armenian Source on Medieval Sumatra/Srivijaya
There aren’t many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there’s no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they’re less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
An Armenian Source on Medieval Sumatra/Srivijaya
There aren’t many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there’s no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they’re less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
An Armenian Source on Medieval Sumatra/Srivijaya
There aren't many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there's no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they're less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated on stylistic grounds to the fourth…
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated on stylistic grounds to the fourth…
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated on stylistic grounds to the fourth…
Mpu Prapanca and the ‘Desawarnana’
It was my birthday yesterday, and my lovely girlfriend bought me a copy of Stuart Robson’s translation of the Desawarnana, the famous Old Javanese kāvya, or poem,…
Mpu Prapanca and the ‘Desawarnana’
It was my birthday yesterday, and my lovely girlfriend bought me a copy of Stuart Robson's translation of the Desawarnana, the famous Old Javanese kāvya, or poem,…