Blog and Substack
This index previews public Substack metadata and routes readers back to the original canonical essays.
World historians are trained to look for patterns across time: migrations, technologies, labor systems, empires, religious movements, and forms of resistance that recur in different world regions. Many notice and discuss connecti...
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The summer of 1816 was remembered as “The Year Without a Summer.” That June, snow fell on Geneva’s lakefront. The eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia had sent volcanic ash around the world, turning Europe’s sky abnormally gray...
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Queen Caroline of Ansbach was not the tyrannical mother or hen-pecking wife popular memory often portrays. A quick browse through TikTok and YouTube shows this unfortunate “hook” shaping many videos. But is that depiction fair? I...
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Dare to Know in the Age of Pluto in Aquarius Pluto has returned to Aquarius; a cycle historically linked to eras of revolutionary change. In its last passage through this sign in the late eighteenth century, men and women outside...
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