Mummies! (Of Usurpers, Head Wounds, & Old Dudes)

by | Feb 25, 2013 | Uncategorized

I’m pretty much up to my eyeballs in ancient Egypt right now so I thought I’d post about my favorite Egyptian mummies, some of whom are familiar, and others not so much. (Also, I showed these to my six-year-old daughter. I think it says something that she...

Hatshepsut’s Temple at Deir el-Bahri

by | Jan 15, 2013 | Uncategorized

I was planning to post last night about my favorite books from 2012, but then a nasty cold bug tried to take me down. Today was an ice day (no school!) so I figured some procrastinating work on my latest revision desk organization was in order. Guess what I found?! A...

Dead People at Dinner

by | Nov 26, 2012 | Uncategorized

I’ve recently been reading a number of works by Voltaire (Candide is absolutely hilarious if you’re in the mood for an Enlightenment era soap opera) and really wish the famous philosophe was still alive so I could invite him to dinner. So that got me...

Crash Course: How and Why We Read

by | Nov 19, 2012 | Uncategorized

I’m not sure if any of you have seen John Green’s Crash Course:World History on YouTube, but seriously, you need to. I actually discovered this nifty (and obscenely addictive) series this year when a student told me Green reminded her of me lecturing,...

History’s Greatest Female Rulers

by | Nov 5, 2012 | Uncategorized

I was walking down the hallway behind one of my former students the other day, listening as he talked to his friend about Queen Elizabeth.  (Never mind how excited I was to hear students discussing history in the halls when they could be talking about the...