One of my favorite reflections on the act of writing was written by a late Roman historian, poet, and rhetorician … More
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Mapping Racism And Assessing the Success of the Digital Humanities
This week, The Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece (now behind a paywall) written by Prof. Timothy Brennan. In it, the … More
Were Pagan Temples All Smashed Or Just Converted Into Christian Churches?
This week over at the Forbes column [access it here], I discuss an article in the new volume of the Journal … More
Hold My Mead: A Bibliography For Historians Hitting Back At White Supremacy
On September 6, 2017, medieval historian David Perry published an article in the Pacific Standard remarking on how medievalists can counter … More
The History Of Torches, Intimidation & Symbols of Violence
You may have noticed that I have been blogging less on my personal site. This certainly is a product of … More
Digital Palmyra: Resources for Researching the Ancient City
Yesterday on the Forbes blog, I discussed recent attempts to reconstruct the ancient busts of Palmyra damaged by ISIS and repatriate … More
Legitimizing The Blog: On Reading, Citing & Archiving Blogposts
Over at the Forbes blog this week, I wrote about an issue within academic blogging that has been bugging me for … More
Modeling the Tincu House: A New 3D Model from Roman Gabii
Over on the Forbes blog this week, I explore the new publication of an interactive 3D model for a mid-Republican … More
Open Access: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Just Gave Us 375,000 More Reasons to Celebrate The Public Domain
As I wrote about in this week’s Forbes blog post, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York yesterday announced … More
January 10, 49 BCE: Revising The Tale Of Caesar’s Crossing of the Rubicon
It was a great trip to the combined annual meeting for the Society for Classical Studies and Archaeological Institute of … More
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