A Few Delights

One reason you should be reading Dave Davisson's Patahistory is that he made this connection two weeks ago. Still, Tim Burke's syllabus for the History of the Future and matt's blog, Paleo-Future, both explore the history of conceptions of the future.

If ever there were a platform you thought might not feature a blog, would it be Britannica? If so, you'd be wrong. Not only that, but historians like Joseph Ellis, Allen Guttmann, Thomas Hauser, Matthew Hilton, W. F. Hogarth, Kathleen Kuiper, Michael Levy, Gregory McNamee, and Allan Meltzer are blogging up a storm over there.

Among other new additions to Cliopatria's History Blogroll: Bridging Differences, where education historian and activists Diane Ravitch and Deborah Meier of NYU are co-blogging; and Rachel's a historian's craft and her older livejournal, idle ThinK. Rachel is a graduate student in England of east Asian history. Excellent blogger, she is.

Finally, happy birthday to my sister, Andrea. She was born on my first birthday – the best. birthday. present. ever. Of course, I can't tell you how old a lady is, but if I'd been born 9 hours earlier, she'd be nearly four times my age.