Looking Through the Past
George DillardIlluminating forgotten corners of history and using them to think about the present
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The Long War on Urban Dogs
The “Pariah Dogs of Constantinople,” 1907 (Public domain)
Every summer in July and August, the “dog days” of summer descend on the Northern Hemisphere. For thousands of years, it was believed that as Sirius, the “dog star,” rose in the sky...
A Narrow Gate
For reasons that are probably obvious, I’ve been thinking lately about geographical chokepoints and the ways they have shaped human history. Next week, we’ll officially start that series with a post on the tangled history of the Strait of H...
Why Is Mongolian Script on Renaissance Paintings?
Pseudoscripts and globalization
The Mongol Empire at its height ruled an area of Eurasia stretching from eastern Europe to Korea, which posed very difficult administrative problems. One of these problems was communication. Kublai Khan cons...
The Huns, Through Others' Eyes
It’s the final entry of our series about the civilizations on the periphery of the Greco-Roman world, and we’ll end, fittingly, with the most storied and caricatured group of them all… the Huns.
As always, you should subscribe so that you...
How the West Almost Turned the Cold War Hot
A 1945 list of targets for American nuclear bombers (Public domain)
After six long years of war, victory was not as satisfying as it could have been for Winston Churchill.
On the one hand, his country had accomplished something remarkable...
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