1. Top Ten Textbooks

    Top tens are common fare for blog posts, but I’ve never written one. The following is a top ten list of the textbooks that I’ve … Read this post →

  2. To Sir Henry Savile

    by Ben Jonson
    If, my religion safe, I durst embrace
    That stranger doctrine of Pythagoras,
    I should believe, the soul of Tacitus
    In thee, most weighty Savile lived to … Read this post →

  3. What to Do for Philosophy of History?

    For the class Philosophy of History, I can choose what to do for my graduate project. I’ve narrowed my choices to two: an annotated bibliography … Read this post →

  4. From “Abattoir” to “Vertiginous”

    In high school, at my father’s suggestion, I wrote down and looked up every word and phrase that I came across and didn’t know the … Read this post →

  5. Classes for This Semester

    This semester, I’ll be taking three classes:

    Hi 660: American Social History Since 1865
    Hi 614: Philosophy of History
    En 522: Seventeenth Century Literature

    Each of these courses seems … Read this post →

  6. The Revolutionary War in South Carolina

    Click for a PDF. Visit the BJU Extended Education website.

  7. A New Version of Zotero

    Just days before the semester starts, the Center for History and New Media has released a new version of Zotero and its Microsoft Word plug-in. … Read this post →

  8. Analog Media Storage Device; or, Dorm Improvement

    For Christmas, my parents gave me two bookcases. Below is a photograph of one of them.