Hugh Trevor-Roper Quote – History Is Not Merely What Happened
“History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.” – Hugh Trevor-Roper
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The History of Antarctic Exploration
Cartoon – The First ‘Back In My Day’ Lecture
Antarctica’s Balmy Past
When the atmosphere had much higher levels of carbon dioxide, Antarctica was as warm as California. New research has revealed that 430 million to 50 million years ago, temperatures on the frozen continent averaged 57 degrees Fahrenheit, with part of the surrounding Pacific Ocean reaching up to 72 degrees. In this ancient era, known as the Eocene epoch, carbon dioxide […]
Read moreBarbara Bloom Quote – Filling The Cracks With Gold
“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.” – Barbara Bloom
Read moreNorman Cousins Quote – History is a vast early warning system
“History is a vast early warning system.” – Norman Cousins
Read moreHow Native American depopulation impacted ecology
There is little dispute that in the wake of European colonists’ arrival in the New World, Native American populations were decimated by disease and conflict. But when it comes to the timing, magnitude, and effects of this Native American depopulation — it depends on who you ask. Many scholars claim that disease struck the native population shortly after their first […]
Read moreCartoon – Stonehenge Decoded
Thomas Cahill Quote – History
“We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage — almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments […]
Read moreNeanderthals—the other white meat
Neanderthals, a sturdy hominid species closely related to Homo sapiens, lived in Europe for about 270,000 years until humans arrived on the continent, about 30,000 years ago, at which point they quickly disappeared. The latest theory for their puzzling extinction is that humans exterminated, and maybe even ate, their Neanderthal cousins. French anthropologist Fernando that the bacterial disease was present […]
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