Luca Barison Today (October 14, 2025) is the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings (AD 1066), a turning point in Norman history. The question I pose in the title of this piece has been very important to me in the last few years. Since I am aware that it won’t be as equally pressing to the majority of readers, I am going to explain … Continue reading Is it a good time to be a Normanist?
Shawn Liu The Taiping Rebellion is infamous for being one of the bloodiest civil wars in history, but it was also an ecological catastrophe. While historian John Fincher has described the conflict as a “heavily saturated topic” in historical scholarship, its ecological dimensions remain strikingly underexplored. Beyond the well-documented clashes of ideologies and armies, another form of destruction took place, one measured not in human … Continue reading Jianbi Qingye: The Environmental Warfare of the Taiping Rebellion: Walls of War, Fields of Fire
Rosie Click During World War II, families in the US planted more than 4.8 million victory gardens to supplement the domestic food supply. The US government encouraged the victory garden program as a way for Americans on the homefront to support the troops by freeing up other food resources to be sent overseas. USDA victory garden promotional documents show that the government considered the various … Continue reading The Politics of Victory Gardens
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