Although all of our faculty are busy researching and writing, we don't often share the results here on Historical Horizons. We do rejoice together in each other's achievements, and sometimes a book review is too good not to share. Congratulations to Frans van Liere, whose book An Introduction to the Medieval Bible (Cambridge, 2014) received the following outstanding …
When Wall Street Became the Capital of the World
Book Note: The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order by Adam Tooze by Jim Bratt. I was going to read Marilynne Robinson’s Lila over the semester break but I got waylaid by history instead. Of all the books on World War I published in its centennial year, it looked …
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Christianity in Cuba after Normalization of Relations
by Dan Miller. Even those of us who try to keep up on news from Latin America were surprised by the announcement on December 17 that the US and Cuba were going to resume normal diplomatic relations. Evidently, representatives of the Obama administration and the government of Raul Castro had been discussing such a move …
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Historians and Doctors: Getting the Facts Straight
by Bob Schoone-Jongen. “Just the facts, ma’am.” Popular history says that for years Sgt. Joe Friday (LAPD, badge 714) intoned this refrain as he gathered clues and information to solve each case. The perpetrator always finished the show looking guilty as sin, while the faceless narrator recited the catalog of charges and the sentence. The …
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Historical Horizons: 2014 in Blog Posts
Happy new year from the Calvin College History Department! It was in early January 2014 that we first chose the name Historical Horizons and began setting up this space. Here's a look back at our Top 10 most-read posts in our first year of blogging: 10. Good Friday in Spain by Kate van Liere Holy Week makes …
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November 1989: Moments that Change Your Life
by Bruce Berglund. Most of us remember exactly where we were when we first heard reports of certain historical events. My grandparents remembered where they were on the Sunday of December 7, 1941, while for my parents’ generation the crushing news came on November 22, 1963. Of course, all of us remember where we heard …
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