History Magazine

Paperblog Editor's Pick

• Animate Motion & Religion

  

  While working on the Göbekli Tepe Series, a reader suggested some possible intersections with the work of Julian Jaynes. At her suggestion I’m reading The... Read more

  The 15 November 2011 by   Cris
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• Buzludzha Monument - Abandoned Relic Of Bulgaria's Communist Past

  

  image credit Buzludzha National Park in the beautiful Central Stara Planina is situated right in the middle of Bulgaria at the heart of its rose growing area.... Read more

  The 14 November 2011 by   Gerard
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• Haeckel’s Mystical Monism

  

  A place for everything and everything in its place. This is not just a mantra for those with obsessive tendencies. It also describes the drive that some have... Read more

  The 12 November 2011 by   Cris
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• Return To Levittown: America's First Suburb Reaches 60

  

  image credit Levittown is a community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States, within the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Levittown was planned and built... Read more

  The 09 November 2011 by   Gerard
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• X-Ray Day

  

  image credit Today is X-Ray Day. On this day in 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a... Read more

  The 08 November 2011 by   Gerard
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• The China Rule & Cult of Confucius

  

  China is big, old, and fascinating. Its importance in the larger scheme of things is such that there should be what I call “The China Rule.” This rule would... Read more

  The 06 November 2011 by   Cris
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• Ohh! Rococo!

  

  Even the cherubs look dismayed.Baron de St. Julien asked Fragonard to depict him in the foreground of his 1766 painting, where he could "see the legs of this... Read more

  The 03 November 2011 by   Thecleverpup
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• Mt. Rushmore: Seventy Years Old and We've Got Some Early Photos

  

  Detail of Mount Rushmore (Heads of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington), photographed by Charles d'Emery, Photograph Archives, Smithsonian American Art Museu... Read more

  The 02 November 2011 by   Americanart
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• Seeing Catholic: Design, Adaptation & Teleology

  

  If I understand my Catholic friends and scholars correctly, God created the cosmos, earth, and life. He sparked the original organism and designed an... Read more

  The 31 October 2011 by   Cris
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• Ghost Hunting and Philosophy

  

  Photo courtesy of iStockphoto. Do you believe in ghosts? The belief that the souls of the deceased may remain among the living is commonly held among... Read more

  The 31 October 2011 by   Realizingresonance
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