Although I don't identify as a historian of technology per se, I have presented at the Society for the History of Technology before. And the technologies I deal with in my work are seemingly mundane--clean sheets, showers, fly-proof screens for meat. Not surprisingly then, I...
world war ii
Loomis has been badgering me for a while to watch The Battle of San Pietro, and in a moment of weakness I finally succumbed. It's truly fantastic; some thoughts: Mark.
Today is Victory Day, a Rhode Island state holiday. The only state to celebrate the day, it commemorates the victory over Japan in World War II. It is a state.
For the last five days I've been embroiled in the brutal, thankless process of moving self and family from the Queen City of the West to the Horse Capitol of the World. In the interest of sparing you from a full understanding of the terrible...
Just wanted to alert people to this excellent collection of anti-venereal disease propaganda from World War II over at Sociological Images. Lisa Wade's larger point is to explore the virgin/whore.
Mark Hamill on Sam Fuller: The image of Lee Marvin threatening to shoot Mark Hamill as the latter tries to assemble a bangalore torpedo on Omaha Beach is one of.
I have nothing to say about Pearl Harbor today. However, while researching a short article about the British attack against the Italian fleet anchorage at Taranto I found this article, which contends that the British attack should be seen as an operational and strategic failure....
I've often wondered; you put Michael Caine on that island with Toshiro Mifune and Lee Marvin, who wins? Via AG.
Iain Ballantyne's new book Killing the Bismarck makes a rather controversial claim: As HMS Rodney, HMS King George V, and several attendant cruisers and destroying were pouring shells and torpedoes.
This is awful, but I suspect we're missing the point: The Republican nominee for Congress for Ohio's 9th District, Rich Iott, played a Nazi for years as part of a re-enactment group, reveals the Atlantic's Joshua Green. Iott was involved in a group that calls...
Quiggin on the end of the Great War: Despite the emergence of the ever-present nuclear menace, 1945 marked the low point of the 20th century in many ways. At least.
This is nothing short of genius: But then there are some shows that go completely beyond the pale of enjoyability, until they become nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes.