Oriental Institute in Chicago
Well, I've been feeling bad about having trashed the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' Sudan exhibition, so I am very happy to be able to praise the galleries of the Oriental Institute [...]
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11, 2019
Classics must move on
Today, instead of writing my own blog post, I can't do better than to recommend this wonderful blog post from #SententiaeAntiquae. Here's a taste to get you started: "The fact is that [...]
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11, 2019
Where do Thanksgiving foods come from?
Most of the food we eat for Thanksgiving dinner is Native food, because this is a tradition that goes back to Native harvest feasts a thousand years or more before European settlers [...]
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11, 2019
#OTD Gettysburg, Impeachment, and Catiline
On November 19, 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, President Lincoln made a famous speech on the battlefield at Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania. He told us that "Now we are engaged in a great [...]
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11, 2019
History of Thanksgiving
We're coming up on Thanksgiving already! There are five parts to the history of Thanksgiving, but we usually choose to remember only one of them. The five parts are 1) Native American [...]
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11, 2019
#OTD: Incas meet Europeans: but why?
On November 15, 1532 AD, the Spanish invader Pizarro, under the rule of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, meets the Inca emperor Atahualpa, setting the stage for the Spanish conquest of Peru, colonization, and slavery. [...]
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11, 2019
#OTD Montgomery bus boycott wins
On November 13, 1956 AD, after months of boycotting the Montgomery, Alabama buses to protest segregation, African-Americans win in the Supreme Court, when the Court declares bus segregation to be unconstitutional. Is [...]
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11, 2019
Sudan exhibit at Boston’s MFA
I was very excited to see a Nubia exhibit at the Boston MFA. The many lovely Sudanese objects that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts bought from British colonial occupiers in the [...]
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11, 2019
Veterans through history
For Veteran's Day, I thought I'd round up a little about soldiers, and especially veterans, and how their governments have interacted with them throughout history... Nubian archers in the Middle Kingdom [...]
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11, 2019
Slavery conference at Yale
I've had a week to think about the conference on ancient and American slavery that I went to at Yale last weekend, and I hope that has given me a chance to [...]
