St. Pat's: What we Have to Look Forward To..

I had a really good video from St. Pat's, but I can't get it to load on here for some reason. Youtube hates me. So... Here are a few pictures of our wild and crazy day. We started off with breakfast at Atchafalaya, then went to the Bulldog on Magazine for some cider, green beer and nasty green jello...

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Road Map Tasmania Photos

3/14 - 3/22 TasmaniaHobart, Cradle Mountain, Bay of Fires, Freycinet Peninsula, Mt. Wellington, Bruny Island, Huon Trail, RichmondTasmania back to Mooloolaba & Billabong:3/22/07 - 4/21/07On March 22, 2007 we flew from Hobart, Tasmania to Sydney, where we stayed with our friends until the 28th (in...

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March Madness

I don't follow college basketball like I used to.I was an undergrad at Duke University from 1975 to 1979. Nowadays, Duke is bigtime basketball, but it wasn't always so. The Duke Blue Devils' record in conference play my first three years there was 7-29, and they pretty consistently finished at the bottom of the Atlantic Coast Conference.But I was a fan. I bet I didn't miss more than a handful of home...

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Road Trip Sydney to Melbourne Photos

3/5/07 - 3/13/073/5 - 3/9 Sydney to Wilson PromontoryKiama, Jamberoo & Kangaroo Valley, Jervis Bay, Depot Beach, Narooma, Tilba Tilba, Bermagui & Moon Bay, Eden / Boyd's Tower, Buchan Caves, Lakes Entrance, Wilson Promontory 3/10 - 3/13 Phillip Island to MelbournePhillip Island, Great Ocean...

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Mammon

Click on image for readable version.from Uncommon Descent, via Tom McMah...

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religious literacy and bible courses

Today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an interview with historian Stephen Prothero concerning his forthcoming book, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs To Know--And Doesn't."Americans are both deeply religious and profoundly ignorant of religion," Stephen Prothero writes in his new book, "Religious Literacy."Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University, notes that...

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Oh What A Day!

I stepped in dog poop twice today. Twice in one day, what are the odds of that? Both times I was wearing my sneakers and of course the poop was inbedded deeply in the tread. Where I was there was no grass, only cobblestoned streets, which do nothing to aleviate my problem. I scraped and I scraped but nothing. On the other hand, the city that I am in is beautiful. It more than makes up for the fact...

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Wow, P.Z. sure is popular!

Yesterday, P.Z. Myers announced: Yes, I will be HALF A CENTURY OLD tomorrow. He invited everyone to write a poem for his birthday. As of right now, that posting has received 166 comments, most containing poetic birthday wishes.Gee, he's popular.The picture on the right is from Richard Dawkins's website....

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Willie Lynch: The Making of a Slave

Trying to clear off the corner of a desk that has become rather cluttered the last few days, I came across something a student gave me last week. He asked if I'd ever heard of Willie Lynch's speech. I said I hadn't, so he gave it to me, printed out from this website. (It's much easier to read, though, here or anywhere else you can find it.) I put it on the side of the desk, and before long it was...

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"They only call it class war ..."

I found this wonderful picture at a posting from gottlieb titled "All Revolution is Class War" over at Progressive Historians. I won't bother quoting or even describing the piece; if the guy holding the sign doesn't make you want to read it, you probably wouldn't enjoy it. (Come to think of it, that...

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History Enthusiast takes on "The Lost Tomb of Jesus"

Kristen, over at The History Enthusiast, has a great post on "Decoding The Lost Tomb of Jesus." Good analysis, but I was especially interested in how she compared the names recorded in the tomb--Jesus, son of JosephMariaMatthewYoseMariamne e MaraJudah, son of Jesusto the listings she found in an 1850 slave schedule from Missouri-- 24-year old mulatto male 20-year old black male 18-year old...

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"Southern Pasts": A new, must-read blog

I just came across a new (two week old) blog, Southern Pasts. The "sub-title," if that's the right word, is "The past is not dead," the first half of a famous line from William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun; the conclusion, "it's not even past," proves that Faulkner was one of the greatest southern historians ever.Southern Pasts is beautiful in both its layout and its writing. The author introduces...

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Getting LOST

Since I'm too worthless these days to post anything here, I'm passing along a link to LOST Magazine, described by the publisher as "an online monthly magazine that combines elements of many other literary, online, and national magazines with a singular mission--to reclaim in writing lost people, places, and things."I haven't read much of it yet, but what I've seen is quite go...

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Land Travels: Camping, Caves, and Crazy Times

We are having a grand time trekking through the Eastern side of Australia. Billabong is safely docked in Mooloolaba and as of the 20th of February we have been putting on the kilometers in our rented “campette” campervan. As of today we have made it just past Sydney, less than 1,000 km if driven straight … however we have driven over 2,500km! We have explored the coast and the neighboring hinterlands;...

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Road Trip Brisbane to Sydney Photos

2/20/07 - 3/4/072/20 - 2/23:  Brisbane to Coff's HarbourMt Warning National Park, Tenterfield & Bald Rock NP, Washpool / Gibralter Range, Yamba, Coff's Harbour, Sawtell 2/23 - 2/27:  Dorrigo to Broken BayDorrigo National Park, Nambucca Heads, Trial Bay / Southwest Rocks, Crowdy Bay, Port...

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Marian Sims and Reconstruction in S.C.

In response to a posting yesterday where I noted that I'm working on a conference paper and need to finish it during our spring break, a reader asks what the paper is about.The paper is for the annual meeting of the Georgia Association of Historians and is titled, rather boringly, "Beyond Surrender: Marian Sims, Francis B. Simkins, and Revisionism in Reconstruction South Carolina."Marian Sims (1899-1961)...

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Who do people say I am?

This past week in my History of American Religion class, we discussed Patrick Allitt's "The American Christ," from American Heritage (Nov. 1988). It's a great article that makes several good points I want my students to learn. (At the end of the semester, they're going to read Stephen Prothero's American Jesus.)Since Jesus was in the news last week, the timing worked out well.A few years ago, I used...

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good stuff for the weekend

For your reading pleasure this weekend:Dr. Homeslice has the 108th Carnival of Education.The 55th Skeptics' Circle is up at Second Sight (with numerology!).The 5th edition of the Georgia Carnival is at Got Bible?.History Is Elementary is hosting the 49th History Carnival.Everything Ed Darrell writes at Millard Fillmore's Bathtub is worth reading.Me, I'm going to finish the above, watch Jesus Camp,...

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