Skeptophilia

If there's one place and historical period I could choose to know more about, it would be England during, and immediately following, the...

Last year I did a post about the remarkable Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus , whose passion for history (coupled with an u...

In 376 C.E., an enormous group of Germanic-speaking Goths, primarily from the Tervingi and Greuthungi  tribes, showed up along the Danube R...

Authors reveal more in their work, sometimes, than they may have intended. That thought crossed my mind more than once while reading the boo...

I'm currently working on a trilogy about the fall of civilization that is not, I hasten to state, inspired by current events. It's a...

During the reign of Augustus Caesar , the Roman leadership felt very close to all-powerful. They had enjoyed unbridled expansion into what i...

Allegedly there is a traditional Chinese curse that goes, "May you live in interesting times." It's certainly true that the pe...

I recently finished reading Adrian Goldsworthy's book How Rome Fell , and was impressed enough with it that (you may recall) it was last...

I love trying foods from different cultures. It's been one of the most enjoyable parts of traveling for me, and despite the fact that ...