How Shakespeare’s Formula Can Transform Your Life
Shakespeare has been on my mind. Our local theater just did Macbeth and I have been reading about Shakespeare in an excellent book my wife gave me for Christmas. I’ve...
Every History Month in 2025
What are the history months on 2025? Women's History Month, Black History month, what else? And when are they? Well if you're wondering when all the history months are in...
Busting the Myth of the Difficult Genius
I was surprised to learn that Leonardo da Vinci, the person we hold to be the apotheosis of the creative genius, was also not a complete a-hole to his fellow...
Here Are Six Ways Our Perception of History Has Changed
By Lara Mudie Latta "God cannot alter the past, though historians can." - Samuel Butler (1835-1902) The way history is taught in school, we are often led to believe that...
The “Literary Machine” for Hands-Free Reading
Have you ever been reading a book and thought, “boy is this physically exhausting”? Neither have I.
But apparently those hard-toiling stoic Victorians did.
10 Hilarious Times Darwin Was Having Just the Worst Day
Charles Darwin had a lot of bad days. Some of his finest moments of whining have been preserved for history, thanks to places such as the Darwin Correspondence Project. Here...