Library and Archives Canada Posts First World War Images on Flickr

From the Announcement: In recognition of Remembrance Day, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has posted a selection of digital images from the First World War on Flickr.com. The images depict the...

UK: New Online Tool will Help Connect History

From the Announcement: Budding historians are set to benefit from a new online project which will revolutionise the way we search for historical sources on the internet, thanks to a £198,977 cash...

A Turkey of an Economic System

Suffolk University’s Ben Powell — a GMU economics PhD — reminds us why the pilgrims had reason to be thankful: they got rid of a turkey of an economic arrangement.  Here’s a...

Thanksgiving and Temporal Bigotry

Stuart Buck encountered a teacher who said “Kids learn so much these days. Did you know that today a schoolchild learns more between the freshman and senior years of high school than our...

Myths of the Knowledge Society

Continuing my retro-reading of old Forbes ASAP issues. In the October 1993 issue, Rich Karlgaard, arguing that book value is of declining importance in evaluating companies, says: Human intelligence...