Historians are dull people; they can kill a conversation with a fact. Robert Littlewood It is impossible to verify the quotation above. Bob ...

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The Grateful Dead in concert at Radio City Music Hall, 23 October 1980. Concert audio is available at the Internet Archive as well as YouTu...

In her classic bestseller, Patterns in Culture (1946 [1934]), Ruth Benedict draws upon Greek myth to construct two categories of cultural p...

Some notes from part of a history lecture: What is history? Why study it? The past helps us understand how we came to be the way we are. The...