by Cathy Hanson | Mar 24, 2020 | HAS, Stories
Today has been a really long week, so it seems like a good time for some birthday music, featuring a musician who was born on this date. Gabriele Susanne Kerner, better known as Nena, was born on this date in 1960. In 1983, during the early years of MTV when music...
by Cathy Hanson | Mar 17, 2020 | HRU
My birthday is in March, so all specialty lists in my Shop are 50% off. Choose from 12 different categories and get links to recent academic journal articles about that topic. Whether you are interested in historical fashion or food or crime (or 9 other topics), there...
by Cathy Hanson | Mar 17, 2020 | HAS, Research Tips
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t have, and utilize, a library card. My local public library closed at 5:00 this evening. I am a huge fan of public libraries and have great respect for all who make libraries such a welcoming place for our entire community, so I...
by Cathy Hanson | Mar 6, 2020 | HRU
The September 15, 1907, Sunday dinner at the Mitchell Hotel in Boise, Idaho. From the Idaho Statesman, September 15, 1907, pp 2 via Wikimedia Commons. Academic journals are usually built around a main theme into which all their articles fit. Like historians, journals...
by Cathy Hanson | Mar 3, 2020 | HAS, News
This video is a great way to see this breaking history news. And see some very excited historians! Thanks to my friend Portia Webb for giving me a heads-up about this. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-51634202/lost-doorway-reveals-historic-secrets-in-parliament...
by Cathy Hanson | Feb 25, 2020 | HAS, Stories
I had so much fun last week looking at the global history of 1863 that I wanted to try a different year. So I moved from the 19th century to the 17th century, to a time before the United States was a country. I’m going to look at 1692, the year of the Salem witch...
by Cathy Hanson | Feb 18, 2020 | HAS, Stories
I am always interested in what was happening around the world during any particular year. For this post I chose to look at 1863. In the United States, the Civil War was 1861-1865 and Americans tend to concentrate completely on that when looking at history for that...
by Cathy Hanson | Feb 11, 2020 | HAS, News
This post combines two general ideas about history that I often write about in other posts. First, there is “breaking news” in the study of history. Sometimes people find stuff that tells historians something completely new or changes perceptions about something we...
by Cathy Hanson | Jan 22, 2020 | HAS, Stories
Last week I wrote about the division of defeated Germany and its capital city of Berlin by the Allied Powers after World War II. You may recall from that post that the eastern part of Germany was taken over by the Soviet Union, while the United States, the United...
by Cathy Hanson | Jan 14, 2020 | HAS, Stories
I’m old enough to have lived during the the last half of the Cold War and remember different ways it impacted my life, especially since I grew up on military bases in the U.S. and other countries. The Berlin Airlift was part of the beginning of the Cold War....
