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American Christmas Tree (about 1812 or 1819) Sorry I fell a little behind there: I was finishing the revisions for my book on the world history of swimming, which should [...]

It may seem like everything's on hold while we wait at home, but time passes whether we go places or not, and it's almost Thanksgiving! Here's a few articles on the complicated [...]

Lights of a Diwali celebration Reposting our Diwali article, with best wishes for the holiday to everyone! Diwali What is Diwali? A woman creates a pattern with colored sand [...]

  Carrying a puppet of Guy Fawkes to burn him Remember, remember the fifth of November... reposting last year's post about Guy Fawkes' Day This post considers which side we [...]

I've got a new blog post up over at The Rambling - check it out! It's about how Europeans thought about swimming in the 1700s - a complicated set of contradictory ideas. [...]

Pumpkins growing It's the last week of October, so it must be time to look at the history of Halloween! We take a look in this article at many different [...]

British colonialist in a litter carried by local men Another great blog post today by Sarah Bond, Katherine Blouin, and Monica Hanna: there's nothing neutral or apolitical about archaeologists wearing [...]

Timeline showing BC and AD dates A history blog naturally spends a lot of time thinking about time: how do we break up time into blocks? Does it make sense [...]

Math book (Babylon, about 2000 BC) (If you're American, the rest of the English-speaking world calls the subject "Maths" - only Americans say "Math class") Today is world maths day, [...]

Shoshone painting of Native men hunting buffalo(ca. 1900 AD, now in Brooklyn Museum) For Indigenous People's Day, here's a list of all our Native Americans articles. They're divided into four [...]