Archive: History category
I just read through a presentation full of quotes on how our Constitutional liberties are being eroded, called Our Awful Situation (thanks to Connor for hosting it). It's a must-read.
Now, I know a lot of people think this sort of thing is crying wolf, that it's propaganda, that ...
For the longest time my reading tastes tended toward fiction, but in the last little while, something's changed. Biography and history are what quenches my thirst now. I've been reading Ã…sne Seierstad's A Hundred & One Days: A Baghdad Journal about her time in Iraq, and it's fascinating. ...
Back in the 1840s, the Saints established the University of Nauvoo. Joseph Smith said that it was to "enable us to teach our children wisdom -- to instruct them in all knowledge, and learning, in the Arts, Sciences and Learned Professions. We hope to make this institution one of ...
This'll be quick. Tonight I went to the Classical 89 silent movie night in the de Jong concert hall, where they showed Buster Keaton's film The General, complete with live organ accompaniment. And before the movie they even had a little vaudeville act with a jazz band and ...
According to National Geographic (thanks to Sally for the link), "nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central, and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests."
Those women left a particular DNA legacy that ...
This morning I came across an amazingly cool post on the LibraryThing blog: the group I See Dead People['s Books] has entered all of Thomas Jefferson's 1815 library into LibraryThing, so you can see what books he had. How cool is that? And it ...
Oscar Wilde says it best: "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
It's been a long while since I went back and read any of my journals, but this morning I found myself with a little extra time and inexplicably decided ...
For the past couple of weeks I've been working with journals of a number of prominent Latter-day Saints -- people like Hyrum Smith, W.W. Phelps, Parley P. Pratt, and Emmeline B. Wells. Amazing stories in many of them, not only in the miraculous events that stick out in our ...
The other day I got to peek inside my soul and see why I rank some days good and others not. I'd thought it would be dependent on how good that day's events were, but that's only part of it. Turns out that the prime factor is, instead, ...
This post became a twinkle in its father's eye back in January, when I was walking through the history books on the bottom floor of the library. There were dozens if not hundreds of books for each country, and while one part of me delighted at such a ...
