Muhlberger's World History

I recently spent two weeks in Patrick County, Virginia. The county is at the heart of Appalachia and part of the Blue Ridge Mountains. A...

I spent much of a recent morning looking at earlier parts of this blog and I found myself surprised at the quality of the material. I don...

I am very impressed by Brad DeLong's essay Shoggoths among us. I've been going through my inbox, and except for all the great a...

Brad deLong loves Peter S. Beagle's Folk of the AirFolk , which he called, back in 2021, "a fantasy novel of Berkeley and of the ...

Here's what he said. This in particularly touched me: At a beautiful ceremony in the vast Canadian cemetery at Bretteville-sur-Laize, ...

Is Canada heaven? Not likely ... except some days I get a glimpse... Take my recent visit to a medical laboratory for some blood-tests...

The Netherlands is a much-admired country, a modern success story. But the success story of today is based on a long history of prominenc...

Baloup, Daniel. L’Homme armé: expériences de la guerre et du combat en Castille au XVe siècle. Madrid: Casa de Velaázquez, 2022. Pp. 309...

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When Trump is destroying the American Constitution and the world economy, it's all too easy to forget Ukraine and its vital place in the...

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Let mw recommend Timothy Burke's Academia: No Lessons From History and Umair Haque's Trump Just Nuked the Economy, or, America i...

A fascinating topic and a fascinating story.

I drew attention last year to the fact that 1,000,000,000 Indians were eligible to vote in the recent elections in that country. (And it se...

That is what a CBC radio host said to a political guest the other day at the end of an excerpt on the upcoming Canadian election. And ...

The usual writing medium in the Russian North during the 13th century was birch bark. One of the most important centers of the "Rus...

In the last few months people have been debating with themselves whether the United States has lost its constitutional orderand is no...

I am currently watching the Vikings and Vikings Valhalla , and I am enjoying them immensely. I don't know if I can rate them with the ...