MakingHistory

Percy Wells Bidwell's Rural Economy in New England at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, which I first read as a grad student and now have a slightly  different reaction to.

Another letter from Lyman in Van Buren, Arkansas. Although he likes "merchandising", Lyman would really prefer studying medicine -- if he only had the funds. 

Alfred W. Crosby Jr.'s groundbreaking 1972 book and its reception, in a new "History in 15" segment.

This semester I'm writing an OER textbook for my course, Modern World History. No wonder I feel busy!

This week I'll be exposing my students to two quite different types of history of the Gilded Age.

A second letter from Lyman, working in Van Buren, Arkansas.

Lucius writes to Henry after a gap of possibly years. 

A look at the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who invented the process we use to make nitrogen fertilizer, and some of the complicated aspects of his life and his process.

Today in history (October 8, 1871), the most devastating fire in American History broke out in Peshtigo Wisconsin. It wasn't a freak accident caused by a dry summer. It was an externality of the lumber industry. 

A longish (65 minute) talk about World War I, for week seven of my Modern World History class at Bemidji State University, Fall 2020.