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By Boing Boing on Apr 17, 2019 in: Video, education, Games, History, Kids
When Rivers Were Trails is a "Native-themed decision-based RPG" based on the classic Apple ][+ game "Oregon Trail," in which you play an 1890 Anishinaabeg person who has been forced off your land in Fond du Lac, Minnesota and must migrate through the...
By Boing Boing on Apr 16, 2019 in: animals, archaeology, dogs, History, Science, scotland
Archaeologists uncovered the skeleton of this neolithic dog more than a century ago in a 5,000 year old tomb on on the island of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Now, forensic scientists and artists have reconstructed the animal's face. According to Histo...
By Boing Boing on Apr 16, 2019 in: geography, History
The US Board on Geographic Names has officially renamed Runaway Negro Creek on Savannah, Georgia's Skidaway Island. It's now called Freedom Creek. Last year, State Sen. Lester Jackson sponsored the resolution to get rid of the offensive name. Accordi...
By Boing Boing on Apr 15, 2019 in: archaeology, History
Engineers digging to lay water pipes in Oxfordshire, England turned up more than two dozen 3,000-year-old human skeletons, some of which were likely killed in sacrifices. From CNN: The remains of 26 people from the Iron Age and Roman periods...
By Sean's Russia Blog on Apr 14, 2019 in: History
Guest: Lara Douds on Inside Lenin’s Government: Power, Ideology and Practice in the Early Soviet State published by Bloomsbury. The post Lenin’s Government appeared first on Sean's Russia Blog.
By Boing Boing on Apr 12, 2019 in: books, History, Kids, publishing
You've got one week to vote in the Children's History Book Prize, whose nominees this year include Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages -- the third book in the Gordon Family Saga, which includes 2009's incomparable White Sands, Red Menace, a book that...
By Thinking Out Aloud on Apr 10, 2019 in: culture, history
Areo magazine has published another essay of mine, Bravado in the Absence of Order, which examines why African-American urban communities have such high rates of homicide and other violence. The essay uses medieval history, and contemporary societies...