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If you don’t work on important problems, it’s not likely that you’ll do important work –R. W. Hamming William Turkel has taken Dr Dick Hamming’s challenge*, elegantly condensed by Paul Graham as What’s the best thing you could be working… continue reading
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Fishel: Secret War for the Union
As mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been reading Edwin C. Fishel’s The Secret War for the Union : The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War (Houghton Mifflin, 1996). In particular, I was hoping to gain some… continue reading
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Opening new territory to exploration
For some time now, maybe the last year or two, I’ve felt too closely focused on the events of one day, 17th September 1862. Not that there isn’t a lifetime’s work yet to be done, or that I’ve done much… continue reading
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TV feeds the Web
I was interested to see a large spike in the number of visitors to AotW between about 6 and 9pm eastern time yesterday. Not too surprising, I guess. This coincides roughly with the History Channel Antietam film airing. We typically… continue reading
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World Premiere at Antietam
My wife and I attended the World Premiere of the History Channel‘s Antietam last night at the Park Visitor Center. If you get the History Channel, you do want to see this show when it is broadcast this evening at… continue reading
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Digital history iceberg, tip of
There must be something in the air. With a range of ideas and dotted with many fine links and teasers, William J. Turkel of the great white north has posted, in a piece called Methodology for the Infinite Archive, comments… continue reading
