NASCAR=War
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In an opinion piece today, David Caraviello (nascar.com) uses a battle analogy talking about cars not finishing races in the Chase to the Nextel Cup: … This isn’t racing. This is an automotive Antietam, a three-week wave of motorsports mayhem… >> continue reading
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A Painter and a Coffin for Two Stetsons
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in biography
(Stetson Company) Anniversary weekend at the Antietam battlefield, Harry Smeltzer came upon the stone honoring Lieutenant Colonel John L Stetson. Stetson was killed at the head of the 59th New York Volunteer Infantry, at the farthest reach of the disastrous… >> continue reading
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Cartoonist really gets the Blogosphere
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Documenting the upmty-ump trillionth blog–created by Ms. Myrna Hummel (observing on stale pancake mix), noting the blog-prominence of cats, and worrying about an approaching critical-mass-of-blogs crisis, cartoonist Richard Thompson has nailed it. As a garrulous drone I can personally validate… >> continue reading
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Trees? Meet forest
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In Google Books: Is it Good for History? in the latest Perspectives–the journal of the American Historical Association (AHA)–Robert Townsend reprises his April AHA blog post with The Google Books project promises to open up a vast amount of older… >> continue reading
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Why Open Access?
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Unless you’re a certain kind of geek, you may not have heard much about Open Access (OA), but it’s coming on strong. The core idea is to make the products of research more widely available by reducing the barriers of… >> continue reading
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Where photographs lead: Wilsons and a Medal of Honor
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in biography
A couple of weeks back Dmitri Rotov made note of Moe D’Aoust’s piece about Burnside and his bridge in the latest Civil War Illustrated. It is nice work. But it was Dimitri’s posted photo of John Moulder Wilson that caught… >> continue reading
