I had another post prepared for today, but a kerflapple* arose on Twitter this weekend about an opinion piece in The Atlantic by Andrew Ferguson that I cannot leave unremarked. The title alone should help you understand why: Historians Should Stay Out of Politics. Let me take a deep breath. I’ll try not to vibrate about the mere title alone. But the opinions expressed in the article are going to make it hard to keep…
Having blogged my way through numerous blogs since 2006, I have seen many changes in the blogging landscape. Blogs began as a way for individuals to share their thoughts on the web. They were often personal journals, which some people loved and others thought were TMI. And then organizations, advertisers, entrepreneurs, and news sources got hold of blogging technology and turned it into a money-making content factory. Social media apps (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat,…
If at first you don’t succeed, blah, blah, blah … Regular and observant readers of The Pragmatic Historian may have noticed that I had an email subscriber form in a couple of spots on the website a while ago. I can’t tell you how long I had them available, but my supposedly occasional email newsletter was called TickTock. How incredibly uninspiring! I wasn’t keen on the name when I chose it, but I was trying…
With this, I have reached the 75th post on The Pragmatic Historian. I started this blog on April 23, 2018, and shot out of the gate by writing 3 posts a week for the first few months in the hopes that Google would get it indexed quickly. It did and once I was sure Google would consistently return my blog when I searched for it by name, I shifted to writing 2 blog posts per…
Dear gosh and dear golly! I’ve changed my blog theme (appearance) again! The last one wasn’t up long, only since the end of April 2018, but I wasn’t in love with it. I was really in love with my last theme (the one with the pink & green leaves at the top and the black background), but it was no longer being updated, so I was forced to find something new. I searched high and…