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Commentary on politics, history, culture, and literature by two Dartmouth graduates and their buddies
WHO WE ARE Chien Wen Kung graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004 and majored in History and English. He is currently a civil servant in Singapore. Someday, he hopes to pursue a PhD in History. John Stevenson graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 with a BA in Government and War and Peace Studies. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He hopes to pursue a career in teaching and research. Kwame A. Holmes did not graduate from Dartmouth. However, after graduating from Florida A+M University in 2003, he began a doctorate in history at the University of Illinois--Urbana Champaign. Having moved to Chicago to write a dissertation on Black-Gay-Urban life in Washington D.C., he attached himself to the leg of John Stevenson and is thrilled to sporadically blog on the Dartmouth Observer. Feel free to email him comments, criticisms, spelling/grammar suggestions. BLOGS/WEBSITES WE READ The American Scene Arts & Letters Daily Agenda Gap Stephen Bainbridge Jack Balkin Becker and Posner Belgravia Dispatch Black Prof The Corner Demosthenes Daniel Drezner Five Rupees Free Dartmouth Galley Slaves Instapundit Mickey Kaus The Little Green Blog Left2Right Joe Malchow Josh Marshall OxBlog Bradford Plumer Political Theory Daily Info Andrew Samwick Right Reason Andrew Seal Andrew Sullivan Supreme Court Blog Tapped Tech Central Station UChicago Law Faculty Blog Volokh Conspiracy Washington Monthly Winds of Change Matthew Yglesias ARCHIVES BOOKS WE'RE READING CW's Books John's Books STUFF Site Feed    |
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Some interesting websites I chanced upon recently If you're weary of election blogging, take a little break and browse some of these websites: - Orbis Latinus. Covers the historical development and grammar of the Romance languages, from Latin to Romanian to Catalan. While not all languages have been covered yet, there's more than enough there, including helpful maps and tables, for many hours of browsing -- especially if you're into the more common languages like Latin (both medieval and classical), French, Italian, and Spanish. - Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Largest and most reliable online collection of maps that I've come across. My own interest is chiefly in the Historical Maps section, which has detailed and large drawings of just about every part of the world at every point of time in the past. See for instance this map of the Byzantine Empire circa 1265, or this map of the North Pole from an 1885 Scottish geographical magazine, or this one of India in 1760. - Dictionary of the History of Ideas. The entries contained here, on subjects as diverse as "Academic Freedom", "Renaissance Humanism", and "Health and Disease," are enormous and written by the likes of Isaiah Berlin, Quentin Skinner, and Arnoldo Momigliano. Be prepared to set aside some serious reading time for them. |
