Friday Ramblings, November 5
This will be a relatively short entry. It's that time of the semester, when grading comes crushing down, and conferences serve to distract. I'm at the Southern Historical Association annual meeting... (Read the full post at ProgressiveHistorians.)

Friday Ramblings, October 30
I consider myself an environmentalist, despite having once eating whale meat. I was a vegetarian for more than 10 years, and a strict vegan for some of those. And while I again eat meat, I do so... (Read the full post at ProgressiveHistorians.)

"The Lord Places People in This or That Country"
Columbus’s first voyage in 1492 combined with his religious motivations for making it led Pope Alexander VI to issue a Papal Bull in 1493. Pope Alexander VI ordered Ferdinand and Isabella to... (Read the full post at ProgressiveHistorians.)

Looking for AHA panelist, 2011 conference, religion/rationality focus
My colleague Elizabeth Nelson and I are in the opening stages of putting together a conference panel proposal for the AHA conference in Boston in 2011 (submission deadline: February 15 of next year).... (Read the full post at ProgressiveHistorians.)

Breast Cancer Awareness Day
This topic is neither progressive, nor particularly confined to historical study, per se. But is it important. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the fourth Monday in October is... (Read the full post at ProgressiveHistorians.)