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What Makes a Good History Blog?

What Makes a Good History Blog?

by Jesse Ritner I love food blogs. It’s true. The bad jokes. Exclamation marks run rampant. Mouthwatering photographs. The word chocolate, over 70 times in only 1,000 words. Unsurprisingly, my first foray into history blogs was through food. Websites such as Cooking in the Archive (which posts about antiquated recipes with pictures and all) were […]

April 2, 2018

Notes From the Field: Bulgaria’s Tolstoyan Vegetarians

Notes From the Field: Bulgaria’s Tolstoyan Vegetarians

by Mary Neuburger It seemed like a bad idea at the time, but I did it anyway. Maybe, just maybe, there was hope that the little museum in the Bulgarian mountain village of Yasna Polyana would be open. Established in 1998, the museum contained the intellectual remnants of the Bulgarian Tolstoyan community, who had created […]

February 26, 2018

Too Much Inclusion? Museo Casa de la Memoria, Medellín, Colombia

Too Much Inclusion? Museo Casa de la Memoria, Medellín, Colombia

By Jimena Perry In 2013, a memory museum opened in Medellín, Department of Antioquia Colombia. Its founding was part of the Victim Assistance Program created by the city’s mayoralty in 2004. Known as one of Colombia’s most violent cities, due mainly to the drug cartel of Medellín led by Pablo Escobar, this urban area suffered […]

June 1, 2017

The Media Matters: Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Discovery of Hunger in the U.S.

The Media Matters: Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Discovery of Hunger in the U.S.

April 11, 2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of a historical moment that is far more relevant today than we might wish: the discovery of hunger in the U.S. or, perhaps better put, the point in the late 1960s when severe poverty and life-threatening malnutrition in the world’s wealthiest nation suddenly soared into public view on the national political stage.

April 12, 2017

The Museum of Sour Milk: History Lessons on Bulgarian Yogurt

The Museum of Sour Milk: History Lessons on Bulgarian Yogurt

by Mary Neuburger One evening this summer, I found myself careening down a country road at breakneck speed to the town of Studen Izvor on the Bulgarian border with Serbia.  Stunning scenery enveloped a string of thinly populated towns, some peppered with socialist-era industrial ruins that somehow added to the charm. Edit, the wife of my […]

September 19, 2016

US Survey Course: Cold War

US Survey Course: Cold War

During the summer of 2016, we will be bringing together our previously published articles, book reviews, and podcasts on key themes and periods in the history of the USA.

July 11, 2016

Sowing the Seeds of Communism: Corn Wars in the USA

Sowing the Seeds of Communism: Corn Wars in the USA

Today we often associate hybrid or genetically modified corn with agricultural monopolies, big business, and capitalism, in the early Cold War some feared that the rise of hybrid corn would sow the seeds of Communism in the United States.

March 2, 2016

Notes from the Field: From Feasts to Feats (or Feet) on the Coals

Notes from the Field:  From Feasts to Feats (or Feet) on the Coals

This summer I conducted research in, but also beyond, my regular haunts, namely the dusty old libraries and archival reading rooms of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. After several days in Sofia, I took to the mountains to follow the paths of ethnographers, tourists, and pilgrims who have written about this distant borderland of Europe over the past 200 years.

September 8, 2015

Domesticating Ethnic Foods and Becoming American

Domesticating Ethnic Foods and Becoming American

How to Cook and Eat in Chinese was the earliest popular, English-language guide to Chinese cooking. First published in 1945 and reprinted several times, it remains in wide use today.

February 10, 2014

Exploring the Silk Route

Exploring the Silk Route

It’s the afternoon of a hot summer’s day and I am standing at the bottom of a staircase—with no handrails—that’s not so much set in to the side of a mountain as built on top of it. Way up there, at the top of four hundred fifty five stairs, there’s a shrine whose gleaming silver dome is barely visible in the afternoon sun. That’s our destination.

October 8, 2013

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