Back in 2001, a colleague on one of my favorite discussion lists asked me about the relevance of my 17th-century studies for busy 21st-century (mostly new media) professionals: “I’m having trouble,” he wrote, “seeing the relevance of anything that happened in the Renaissance to C21.”...
In truth he was not even in Wittenberg at the time and was inconsistent in his recollections of the event. He mentioned it in a Sunday sermon in 1557, for example, but there was no reference to it in the short historical account of the Reformation that he placed in a time-capsule left...
The bite had become infected and created an abscess. In the doctor’s office I got to lay my body across his flailing limbs so that the pediatrician could drain the wound while my son screamed in pain. It was a procedure thathurtbut would in no wayharm;failing to drain the wound, in ...
Arguably the most influential proponent of mercantilism, French Controller General of Finance Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) studied foreign-trade economic theories. He was uniquely positioned to execute on mercantilist ideas.7A devout monarchist, Colbert called for an economic strategy that protected ...
This Day in History Video: What Happened on May 21 19th Century 1683 World’s first university museum opens in Oxford, England European History 1927 Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight Roaring Twenties 1932 ...